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lackluster (adj.)
also
lack-luster
, c.1600, first attested in "As You Like It," from
lack
+
luster
. Combinations with
lack-
were frequent in 16c., e.g.
lackland
(1590s), of a landless man;
lack-Latin
(1530s), of an ignorant priest.