Log in or Sign up
  1. lust love

Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Intense or unrestrained sexual craving.
  2. n. An overwhelming desire or craving: a lust for power.
  3. n. Intense eagerness or enthusiasm: a lust for life.
  4. n. Obsolete Pleasure; relish.
  5. v. To have an intense or obsessive desire, especially one that is sexual.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Desire, inclination, or wish in general.
  2. n. Intense longing desire; eagerness for possession or enjoyment: as, the lust of gain.
  3. n. Specifically Evil propensity; depraved affection or desire.
  4. n. In absolute use, carnal desire; sexual appetite; unlawful desire of sexual pleasure; concupiscence.
  5. To desire eagerly; long: with after or for.
  6. To take pleasure; delight; like.
  7. Specifically To have evil desire.
  8. To have carnal desire: with after.
  9. A Middle English form of list .
  10. n. Pleasure; delight; a source of pleasure.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A feeling of strong desire, especially of a sexual nature.
  2. n. archaic A general want or longing not necessarily sexual or devious.
  3. n. archaic A delightful cause of joy, pleasure.
  4. v. intransitive To very strongly desire.
  5. v. To crave sexual contact urgently.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. obsolete Pleasure.
  2. n. obsolete Inclination; desire.
  3. n. Longing desire; eagerness to possess or enjoy; -- in a had sense.
  4. n. Licentious craving; a strong sexual appetite.
  5. n. obsolete Hence: Virility; vigor; active power.
  6. v. obsolete To list; to like.
  7. v. To have an eager, passionate, and especially an inordinate or sinful desire, as for the gratification of the sexual appetite or of covetousness; -- often with after.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. have a craving, appetite, or great desire for
  2. n. a strong sexual desire
  3. n. self-indulgent sexual desire (personified as one of the deadly sins)

Etymologies

  1. Old English lust ("lust, pleasure, longing"), from Proto-Germanic *lustuz. Akin to Old Saxon, Dutch lust, Old Frisian, Old High German, German Lust, & Swedish lust, Danish lyst & Icelandic lyst, Old Norse losti, Gothic lustus, and perhaps to Sanskrit lush "to desire" and Albanian lushë ("bitch, savage dog, promiscuous woman"), or to English loose. Confer list ("to please"), listless. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, from Old English, desire; see las- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

Show 10 more examples...

Log in or sign up to add your own related words.

synonyms (7)

Words with the same meaning

  1. pleasure
  1. inclination
  1. desire
  1. vigor
  1. list
  1. like
  1. long

hypernyms (8)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. desire
  1. want
  1. Eros
  1. physical attraction
  1. sexual desire
  1. concupiscence
  1. deadly sin
  1. mortal sin

same context (13)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. greed
  2. hunger
  1. desire
  2. cruelty
  1. hatred
  2. ambition
  1. envy
  2. appetite
  1. excitement
  2. violence
  1. madness
  2. revenge
  1. folly

rhymes (30)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. adjust
  2. antitrust
  3. brust
  4. bused
  5. bussed
  6. bust
  1. combust
  2. crust
  3. cussed
  4. discussed
  5. disgust
  6. distrust
  1. dust
  2. encrust
  3. entrust
  4. fussed
  5. fust
  6. gust
  1. hust
  2. incrust
  3. just
  4. mistrust
  5. must
  6. nonplussed
  1. readjust
  2. robust
  3. rust
  4. thrust
  5. trust
  6. unjust

reverse dictionary (60)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. lustful
  2. carnality
  3. luxury
  4. lustless
  5. lusty
  6. lecher
  7. incontinence
  8. incontinent
  9. lewd
  10. libertine
  11. debauchery
  12. delight
  1. desire
  2. lechery
  3. leer
  4. lest
  5. letch
  6. concupiscence
  7. concupiscent
  8. temptational
  9. tentiginous
  10. gloat
  11. pimp
  12. salaciousness
  1. calenture
  2. deadly sin
  3. bawdry
  4. lasciviousness
  5. lecherous
  6. lust-breathed
  7. raunchy
  8. lust
  9. lascivious
  10. pornographic
  11. prurient
  12. salacious
  1. passion
  2. pursue
  3. libidinous
  4. lubricious
  5. obscene
  6. adult
  7. to pander to
  8. pride
  9. procurer
  10. salacity
  11. deadly sins
  12. venereous
  1. anarchist
  2. carousal
  3. covet
  4. criminal
  5. cupidity
  6. libertinism
  7. list
  8. luster
  9. luxurious
  10. nefarious
  11. purity
  12. purveyor

tags (10)

Free-form, user-generated categorization

  1. love
  2. seven deadly sins
  1. affection
  2. 2 by 5
  1. tarot
  2. relationship's
  1. couple's
  2. smitten
  1. tears
  2. cvcc

Log in or sign up to add your own tag.

tagging (3)

Words tagged ‘lust’

  1. gole
  1. love
  1. sex

Wordmap

(beta)

Word visualization

Lists

These user-created lists contain the word ‘lust’.

More lists containing ‘lust’

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.

Tweets

Looking for tweets for lust.

‘lust’ has been looked up 5960 times, loved by 11 people, added to 70 lists, commented on 1 time, and has a Scrabble score of 4.