Definitions
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the property of having little or no contrast; lacking highlights or gloss
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Their feet were callused by months without shoes, their frequently-washed uniforms stained and threadbare from the same harsh soap that coarsened their skin and turned their ragged unkempt hair to tangles in the human’s case and a limp lustrelessness in the Vulcan’s.
Dwellers in the Crucible Margaret Wander Bonanno 1990
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