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lusterless
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dull, colorless |
| Synonyms: | arid, blah*, bleak, boring, brown, characterless, cheerless, desolate, dingy, dismal, dreary, dry, dull as dishwater, faded, flat, gloomy, gray, grungy, lackluster, lusterless, muddy, murky, run-down, same, shabby, somber, subfuse, unchanging, uninspired, vapid, zero* |
| Antonyms: | bright, colorful, inspired |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | faded |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bleached; used |
| Synonyms: | achromatic, ashen, bedraggled, dim, dingy, discolored, dull, etiolated, indistinct, lackluster, lusterless, murky, not shiny, pale, pallid, run-down, seedy, shabby, shopworn, tacky, tattered, threadbare, tired, wan, washed out, wasted, worn |
| Antonyms: | brightened, colored, strengthened |
| Main Entry: | lackluster |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dull, lifeless |
| Synonyms: | blah*, blind, boring, colorless, dark, dead, dim, drab, draggy, dry, flat*, ho-hum, laid-back*, leaden, lusterless, matte, muted, nothing*, obscure, pabulum, prosaic, sombre, unimaginative, uninspired, vanilla, vapid, zero* |
| Antonyms: | bright, enthusiastic, lively, shining, shiny, spirited |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | lifeless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dull, spiritless |
| Synonyms: | blah*, cold, colorless, drab, draggy, flat, hollow, insipid, lackluster, lethargic, listless, lusterless, nothing*, pabulum, passive, prosaic, prosy, slothful, slow*, sluggish, spent, static, stiff*, torpid, wooden, zero* |
| Antonyms: | energetic, lively, spirited |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | opaque |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | clouded, muddy |
| Synonyms: | blurred, cloudy, dark, darkened, dim, dirty, dull, dusky, filmy, foggy, frosty, fuliginous, gloomy, hazy, impenetrable, lusterless, misty, muddied, murky, nontranslucent, nontransparent, nubilous, obfuscated, shady, smoky, sooty, thick, turbid |
| Notes: | oblique means slanting or inclined in direction or course or position - or misleading; opaque means not transmitting or reflecting light - or not clearly understood or expressed |
| Antonyms: | clear, lucid, translucent, transparent, unclouded |
| Main Entry: | prosaic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unimaginative |
| Synonyms: | actual, banal, blah*, boring, clean, colorless, common, commonplace, dead*, diddly, drab, dry, dull, everyday, factual, flat*, garden-variety, hackneyed, ho-hum, humdrum*, irksome, lackluster, lifeless, literal, lowly, lusterless, matter-of- fact, monotonous, mundane, nothing, nowhere, ordinary, pabulum, pedestrian, platitudinous, plebeian, practicable, practical, prose, prosy, routine, square, stale, tame, tedious, trite, uneventful, unexceptional, uninspiring, vanilla, vapid, workaday, yawn, zero* |
| Antonyms: | creative, imaginative, interesting, thinking |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | washed-out |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | faded |
| Synonyms: | bleached, colorless, discolored, drained, drawn, dull, etiolated, fatigued, lusterless, not shiny, pale, pallid, run-down, shopworn, tattered, threadbare, tired, worn |
| Main Entry: | anemic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | feeble |
| Synonyms: | ashen, bloodless, etiolated, faint, languid, lifeless, listless, livid, low, lusterless, pale, pallid, sickly, wan |
| Main Entry: | earthbound |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dull |
| Synonyms: | colorless, drab, dreary, dry, flat, flavorless, humdrum, lackluster, lifeless, lusterless, mundane, ordinary, pedestrian, prosaic, prosy, spiritless, stodgy, unimaginative, uninspired, uninteresting |
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