unlustrous

English

Etymology

un- +‎ lustrous

Adjective

unlustrous (comparative more unlustrous, superlative most unlustrous)

1. Not lustrous; without lustre.
   • 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “Cymbeline. A Tragedy.”, in The Plays of William Shakespeare. Volume the Ninth, Containing, Troilus and Cressida. Cymbeline. King Lear, volume IX, London: Printed for C[harles] Bathurst [et al.], published 1773, →OCLC, [Act I, scene vi], pages 183–184:

     [S]hould I […] join gripes with hands / Made hard with hourly falſhood (falſhood as / With labour) then lye peeping in an eye, / Base and unluſtrous as the ſmoaky light / That's fed with stinking tallow; it were fit, / That all the plagues of hell ſhould at one time / Encounter ſuch revolt.

     In the First Folio (1623), the word is misprinted as illustrious; illustrous was probably intended.

Synonyms

• illustrous
• lustreless, lusterless