Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Excited or driven by lust.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having prurient lust; incontinent; libidinous.
- Marked by or pertaining to lust; exciting or manifesting lust.
- Vigorous; robust; stout; lusty.
- Synonyms See list under lascivious.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Full of lust; excited by lust.
- adj. Exciting lust; characterized by lust or sensuality.
- adj. obsolete Strong; lusty.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. driven by lust; preoccupied with or exhibiting lustful desires
- adj. vigorously passionate
- adj. characterized by lust
Etymologies
- From Middle English lustful, from Old English lustfull ("desirous, wishful"), equivalent to lust + -ful. Cognate with Dutch lustvol ("lustful, lusty"), German lustvoll ("pleasurable"), Swedish lustfyllt ("pleasurable"), Swedish lustfyllda ("lustful"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“And what did he say about woman looking at men in lustful way?”
“We would often devote our Sundays to having a picnic as we termed our lustful bouts, stimulating ourselves with wine.”
“That it’s so lustful is what makes it so brilliant.”
“So then in lustful, that is, in darkened affections, is the true distance from Thy face.”
“So, how can one inspire that kind of lustful adoration?”
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“In order to use delusions, such as lustful desire, as a path, however, we must first be devoid of the self-cherishing attitude, that is the greedy attachment to our own self-interest.”
“The issue is not Roth's depiction of "lustful" Jews as he seems to believe.”
“Men who don’t rape still benefit because they benefit from being defined as the lustful, the pursuers, and get lauded simply for being able to refrain from forcing.”
“Youths arrested in Iran for 'lustful' behaviour at illegal concert”
“A number of Open Source companies were quick to cheer the decision, though Ubuntu-founder and Canonical chief Mark Shuttleworth was perhaps the most unique, noting that "Qt's new licensing terms will help us deliver ever more 'lustful' applications to users.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘lustful’.
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emo words
feelings...blah, blah, blah, feelings...
forsaken, anguish, angst, sorrowful, dejected, depressed, disconsolate, heartbroken, genial, chipper, inadequate, helpless and 58 more...
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Personal Vocabulary List
All my favourite words that I come across!
veritable, incongruence, rigamorole, letcherous, revolting, repulsive, reputrid, rapatious, forays, guise, placate, paradigm and 1162 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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Let's talk about sex
A collection of words about doing the nasty.
prurient, odalisque, soubrette, gravid, lochia, xenogamy, syngamy, zygote, pintle, hexaploid, seminal, hetaera and 232 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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SAT
abandon,extreme e..., abash,to humiliate, abate,to lessen, abbreviate,to sho..., abridge, abdicate,to forma..., aberration,depart..., abnormality, abet,to encourage, abhor,to hate, abide,to follow o..., abject,utterly ho... and 2228 more...
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SAT
abandon,extreme e..., dispensing of all..., abash,to humiliate, abate,to lessen, abbreviate,to sho..., abridge, abdicate,to forma..., aberration,depart..., abnormality, abet,to encourage, abhor,to hate, abide,to follow o... and 2229 more...
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I can make you weak/ and if you dive ...
sexy/dirty
grind, moan, tease, cunt, fuck, lick, bite, come, breathless, suck, delicious, honey and 2 more...
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SAT
abandon,extreme e..., dispensing of all..., abash,to humiliate, abate,to lessen, abbreviate,to sho..., abridge, abdicate,to forma..., aberration,depart..., abnormality, abet,to encourage, abhor,to hate, abide,to follow o... and 2229 more...
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