Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Listless; languid; lifeless; indifferent.
Wiktionary
- adj. Without sexual lust.
- adj. obsolete Lacking vigour; weak; spiritless.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. obsolete Lacking vigor; weak; spiritless.
- adj. Free from sexual lust.
Etymologies
- lust + -less (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Moreover, I welcome the coming of a new day when we will all be lustless, righteous vessels floating in a single, ever-expanding universe that, long ago, flew out of a magical woman's baby-deploying cavity.”
The Huffington Post: Carol Hartsell: The War on Lust Must Be Won
“I find his Lutheran paddling world of lustless frustration almost as disturbing as Allen's Judaica manias.”
“The lustless love on display in "HSM" -- there isn't a single kiss -- thrusts the film squarely into the center of the ongoing culture wars over "decency" in radio and television, and at a particularly heated juncture.”
“T'awake the lustless sun, or chiding, that so long”
Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete
“And of course, they're going to pick the sort of songs that the Cure just kept on the right side of embarrassing, the kind that you might have viewed as gospel in your hormonall - challenging teen years that their cloying, lustless approach will completely ruin for you.”
“7 For in his lustless limbs, through evil guise, lustless > {Listless; joyless, lacking pleasure or delight} guise > mode of life”
“_lustless_: the noun _lust_ has lost its original and wider sense (which it still has in German), and now signifies 'longing desire. ”
“(and a far more modern) message - the relevance of which extends far beyond love triangles encircling the lustless courtship of old money.”
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