Lust

Definition: Lust

Lust

Noun

1. A strong sexual desire.

2. Self-indulgent sexual desire (personified as one of the deadly sins).

Verb

1. Have a craving, appetite, or great desire for.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "lust" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references)

Bible

Multilingual Slang

Slang

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Lust

Desire

Be hungry; play a good knife and fork; hunger after, thirst after, crave after, lust after, itch after, hanker after, run mad after; raven for, die for; burn to.

Appe appetition, appetence, appetency; sharp appetite, keenness, hunger, stomach, twist; thirst, thirstiness; drouth, mouthwatering; itch, itching; prurience, cacoethes, cupidity, lust, concupiscence.

Impurity

Concupiscence, lust, carnality, flesh, salacity; pruriency, lechery, lasciviency, lubricity; Sadism, sapphism.

Sexuality

Sex instinct, sex drive, libido, lust, concupiscence;hots, horns; arousal, heat, rut, estrus, oestrus; tumescence; erection, hard-on, boner.

Crosswords: Lust

Dutch (desire, disposal, inclination, lust, passion, sexual pleasure, tendency, want, wish), German (appetite, delight, desire, disposal, gusto, inclination, itch, joy, lust, mind, passion, pleasure, sexual pleasure, stomach, tendency, want, wish, yen, zest), Swedish (appetite, desire, fancy, impulse, inclination, mind, pleasure, yen).

Have you ever had two people look at you, with complete lust and devotion, through the same pair of eyes (Being John Malkovich; writing credit: Charlie Kaufman)

Yes, three big ones and they lust wimp blood (Sixteen Candles; writing credit: John Hughes.)

I'm not the type of man who inspires lust. I bought a dildo once and it lost it's erection (Hit and Runway; writing credit: Jaffe Cohen; Christopher Livingston)

I slept with you and your friend, and gave myself to your lust and ungodliness, and all for nothing (The Mists of Avalon; writing credit: Marion Zimmer Bradley; Gavin Scott)

Let's just say that I am very much in lust with you. (The Twelve Chairs; writing credit: Mel Brooks; Elizabeth Hill)

Is like a lust for gold (Something So Strong; performing artist: Crowded House)

Turn your anger into lust (Big Machine; performing artist: Goo Goo Dolls)

Mouth to mouth, lust to lust (What Would Happen; performing artist: Meredith Brooks)

The Truth Of Lust (In the Closet; performing artist: Michael Jackson; writing credit: Michael Jackson and Teddy Riley)

Because the night belongs to lust (Because The Night; performing artist: Patti Smith)

The desire of love is to give. The desire of lust is to get. (references; author: unknown)

Lash of Lust (1974)

Das Wandern ist Herrn Müllers Lust (1973)

Klara Lust (1972)

Tonga: God of Love & Lust (1972)

The Altar of Lust (1971)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Angel Lust : An Erotic Novel of Time Travel (reference)

• Lust & Other Stories (Vintage Contemporaries) (reference)

• Lust for Life (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Lust Line : Report On Federal & State Programs To Control Leaking Underground Storage Tanks (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Demon Lust (reference)

• Lust for a Vampire (reference)

• Lust for Life (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Lust auf sex?. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

But if any one should ask, Must the people then always lay themselves open to the cruelty and rage of tyranny? Must they see their cities pillaged, and laid in ashes, their wives and children exposed to the tyrant's lust and fury, and themselves and families reduced by their king to ruin, and all the miseries of want and oppression, and yet sit still? Must men alone be debarred the common privilege of opposing force with force, which nature allows so freely to all other creatures for their preservation from injury? I answer: Self-defence is a part of the law of nature; nor can it be denied the community, even against the king himself: but to revenge themselves upon him, must by no means be allowed them; it being not agreeable to that law. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Such moments passed and the wasting fires of lust sprang up again

To clear up which I endeavored to give some ideas of the desire of power and riches, of the terrible effects of lust, intemperance, malice and envy

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The graves of lust

Expressions using "lust": blood lust ♦ lust after ♦ lust for ♦ lust for blood ♦ lust for learning ♦ sexual lust. Additional references.

Beginning with "lust": lust-gleam, lust-in-denim, lust-inspired, lust-in-the-saddle, lust-ridden.

Ending with "lust": blood-lust.

Albanian

jam i etur (die, hanker, thirst, yearn), jam i djegur, etje e pashuar, epsh (concupiscence, lewdness, libido, prurience, pruriency, unction), dëshirë e ethshme, afsh (breath, fervor, fervour, fever, heat, odor, odour, oestrum, oestrus, passion, vivacity). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تلهف (gasp, itch, pant, sigh), ‏توق شديد (craving, thirstiness), ‏إشتهى (desire, feel like, hunger, wish), ‏رغبة جنسية قوية, ‏رغبة (craving, desire, device, disposition, hangnail, inclination, longing, mind, readiness, stomach, will, willingness, wish), ‏رغب في الجماع, ‏شهوة (appetence, desire, itch, lust after, passion, pleasure, rage, will), ‏شبق (libidinous, lickerish, lustful, rut, salacious, salaciousness, satyr, sultriness). (various references)

Bulgarian 

страст (abandon, addiction, ardour, desire, feeling, fervency, fervor, fervour, infatuation, passion, rage, vehemence), сладострастие (salacity, sensualism), силно желая (die, spoil), силно желание (ambition, anxiety, appetence, appetency, avarice, impatience, itch, oestrum, oestrus, yearning), похот (flesh), изпитвам страст, изпитвам похот. (various references)

Chinese 

情热, 慾望 (desire), 春 (gay, joyful, life, love, spring, youthful). (various references)

Czech

vilnost (salacity), chtivost (avidity). (various references)

Dutch

roes (drunkenness, inebriety, passion), passie (passion), lust (desire, disposal, inclination, passion, sexual pleasure, tendency, want, wish), hartstocht (passion). (various references)

Esperanto

volupto (sexual pleasure), pasio (passion). (various references)

Faeroese

ovurhugi (passion), hugur (disposal, inclination, passion, tendency), girnd (sexual pleasure), gessur (passion). (various references)

Farsi 

هوس (Caprice, Fancy, Gee, Heartthrob, Libido, Scape, Whim, Whimsy), حرص واز, شهوت داشتن , شهوت (Rut). (various references)

Finnish

intohimo (passion), himo (addiction to drink, craving, desire, greed, thirst), hekuma (voluptuousness), halu (bent, desire longing wish, eagerness, inclination, tendency). (various references)

French

passion. (various references)

German

Wollust (lasciviousness, lechery, lewdness, salaciousness, sensuality, sexual pleasure, voluptuousness), Lust (appetite, delight, desire, disposal, gusto, inclination, itch, joy, mind, passion, pleasure, sexual pleasure, stomach, tendency, want, wish, yen, zest), begierde (appetency, avidity, avidness, covetousness, cupidity, desire, longing, lustfulness, yearning). (various references)

Greek 

λαγνεία (concupiscence, lecherousness, lewdness, libidinousness, lustfulness, prurience, sensualism, venery, wantonness). (various references)

Hawaiian

afsh (heat, passion). (various references)

Hebrew 

יצר (compose, create, creature, desire, impulse, inclination, instinct, nature, urge), לע�'וב (dote upon, make love), לחמו�" (covet, desire), ל�"תאוות (covet, crave, desire, long for), ל�"תחשק (desire, feel like, get a yen), ל�"שתוקק (crave, desire, hanker, hunger, long for, strive, want, wish for, yearn), תשוק�" (craving, desire, itch, passion, rage, thirst, urge, yen), תאות� ות (lecherousness, lechery, lewdness, lustfulness, mania, passion, salacity, sensuality, sexuality, voluptuousness), תאו�" (craving, desire, indulgence, longing, passion, voluptuousness), ע�'ב�", ע�'ב� ות, או�" (craving, desire, longing, passion, yearning), חשק (delight, desire, eagerness, gusto, longing, penchant, relish, zeal, zest). (various references)

Hungarian

nemi vágy (libido, sex urge), kéjelgés (lechery). (various references)

Indonesian

syahwat, nafsu (itch, passion), hawa nafsu (passion), birahi (sexual desire). (various references)

Italian

lussuria, libidine (appetency, sensuality, sensuously, voluptuousness), lascivia (bawdiness, lasciviousness, lechery, leer, lewdness, lustfulness, obscenity), volutt� (enjoyment, pleasure, salaciousness, voluptuousness), uzzolo (delight), concupiscenza (concupiscence), bramare (aspire, covet, crave, desire, hanker, hunger, long, long for, yearn), brama (anxiety, appetence, appetency, craving, desire, hankering, longing, lustfulness), avidit� (avidity, eagerness, greed, greediness, piggishness, ravenousness, thirst). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

情慾 (passion, sexual desire), 好色　 (lewdness, sensuality), 女色 (love affair, woman's beauty), 春情 (scenery of spring, sexual passion), 愛欲 (love, passion), 愛慾 (love, passion), 好色 (lewdness, sensuality), 淫慾 , 色情 (sexual passion), 劣情 (animal passions, carnal desire), 獣欲 (animal or carnal desires), 獣慾 (animal or carnal desires), 肉欲 (animal passions, carnal desires, lusts of the flesh), 色 (colour, sensuality), 色欲 , 淫欲 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しきよく (sexual appetite), しきじょう (ceremonial hall, cog rail, place of ceremony, sexual passion), しゅ�"じょう (scenery of spring, sexual passion), にくよく (animal passions, carnal desires, lusts of the flesh), い�"よく, いろ (colour, sensuality), �"うしょく (degradation, lewdness, mixed weave, neglect of official duty, public office, red color, sensuality, yellow), れつじょう (animal passions, carnal desire), あいよく (love, passion), じゅうよく (animal or carnal desires), じょしょく (love affair, woman's beauty), じょうよく (passion, passions, sexual desire, upper wing of a plane). (various references)

Korean 

� �욕. (various references)

Manx

yeearree ny foalley (sexual desire), sayntaghey, saynt (avarice, covetousness, thirst for knowledge), rouanys (excess, immorality, lewdness, profligacy, rioting, riotousness, wantonness), mianey (desire, fancy, hanker, hankering, long, wish), glieemian (concupiscence), er cannoo lurg (infatuated), cannoo. (various references)

Norwegian

lyst, vellyst, begjær (desire). (various references)

Papiamen

pashon (passion). (various references)

Pig Latin

ustlay.(various references)

Polish

pasja (anger, passion). (various references)

Portuguese

luxúria (carnality, eroticism, lechery, luxuriance, sexiness), lascívia (lecher, lubricity, prurience, pruriency), volúpia (sexual pleasure), sensualidade (animalism, carnality, eroticism, flesh, incontinence, lubricity, self-indulgence, sensuality, sexiness, sexual pleasure, unrestraint), paixão (addiction, ardor, ardour, fire, flame, glow, love, love-sickness, mania, passion, rabidity, vehemence, zeal), entregar-se � luxúria, desejo (appetite, breathing, craving, desirability, desire, elan, fancy, fantasy, list, longing, phantasy, pleasure, want, will, wish), desejar sexualmente, concupiscência (concupiscence), cobiçar (ache, ambition, covet, desire, long, yen), ardor (ardor, ardour, caloric, fervency, fervor, fervour, fire, flame, glow, heat, mettle, mettlesomeness, passion, tingle, vehemence, warmth, zeal), apetite sexual. (various references)

Romanian

sete (covetousness, craving, itch, itching, thirst), senzualitate (concupiscence, fleshliness, lechery, lustfulness, sensuality, sensuousness, voluptuousness), poftã trupeascã, dorinţã (accord, appetence, appetency, appetite, craving for, desideratum, desire, device, mind, notion, request, requirement, run, urge, wish, yearning). (various references)

Russian 

страсть (desire, fervour, passion, rage). (various references)

Scottish

drùis, connan, anamaint. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

sladostrašće (lechery), pohlepa (avarice, greed, greediness), požuda (greed), žudnja (avidity, craving, eagerness, hanker, hankering, hunger, longing, thirst, yen), žudeti (ache, aspire, covet, crave, hanker, hunger, long for, thirst, yearn). (various references)

Spanish

lujuria (lustfulness). (various references)

Swedish

begär (appetite, avidity, covetousness, craving, desire, eagerness, greediness, longing, yen), åtrå (concupiscence, covet, crave, desire, hanker, lust after, lust for, yearning). (various references)

Thai

ความต้องการทางเพศ (eroticism), ความปรารถนา. (various references)

Turkish

seks düşkünlüğü (nymphomania, voluptuousness), şehvetli olmak, şehvet (carnality, concupiscence, desire, eroticism, flesh, lustfulness, salacity, sensuality, sexual desire), axk (affection, love, passion), arzulu olmak, arzu (affect, appetence, appetency, appetite, aspiration, conation, craving, desire, hankering, hunger, intentness, longing, maggot, passion, prurience, pruriency, rage, request, thirst, urge, want, will, willingness, wish, yearning, yen). (various references)

Ukrainian

хтивість (animalism, carnality, concupiscence, eroticism), відчувати жагу, пристрасть (appetence, appetite, ardency, ardour, bias, care, desire, flame, fondness, leaning, partiality, passion, predilection, propensity, rage, weakness, yen), пристрасно бажати, похіть (carnality, concupiscence, will). (various references)

Welsh

trachwantu (covet), trachwant (avarice, covetousness, greed), gwy+n (ache, smart), chwanta (covet, desire), chwant (appetite, craving, desire, want, wish), blysio (crave), blys (craving). (various references)

cupidinis, cupido, libidine, libidinem, libidini, libidinis, libido. (various references)

lust. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "lust": lusted, luster, lustered, lustering, lusterless, lusters, lusterware, lusterwares, lustful, lustfully, lustfulness, lustfulnesses, lustier, lustiest, lustihood, lustihoods, lustily, lustiness, lustinesses, lusting, lustra, lustral, lustrate, lustrated, lustrates, lustrating, lustration, lustrations, lustre, lustred, lustres, lustring, lustrings, lustrous, lustrously, lustrousness, lustrousnesses, lustrum, lustrums, lusts, lusty. (additional references)

Words ending with "lust": wanderlust. (additional references)

Words containing "lust": baluster, balusters, balustrade, balustraded, balustrades, bluster, blustered, blusterer, blusterers, blustering, blusteringly, blusterous, blusters, blustery, cluster, clustered, clustering, clusters, clustery, deluster, delustered, delustering, delusters, fluster, flustered, flusteredly, flustering, flusters, illustrate, illustrated, illustrates, illustrating, illustration, illustrational, illustrations, illustrative, illustratively, illustrator, illustrators, illustrious, illustriously, illustriousness, illustriousnesses, intercluster, lackluster, lacklusters, semilustrous, subcluster, subclusters, supercluster, superclusters. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Lust" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Alushta, aust, clust, iust, laust, lestr, listo, liuts, llusg, lorst, lostr, loust, lrus, lst, Lucht, Luest, luet, luft, Luisito, Luit, lus, lusa, lusch, lusit, luso, Luss, Lusta, luste, Lustra, Lusy, lut, Lutsk, luut, luxs, luzs, lyst, plust, slust, tlost, uls, Ult, ults, ulus, ust. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: uts.

-2 letters: us, ut.

+1 letter: cults, gluts, lotus, louts, lunts, lusts, lusty, lutes, sault, sluts, stull, talus, tolus, tules.

+2 letters: adults, bluest, bluets, blunts, blurts, bustle, butles, butyls, clouts, culets, cultus, cutlas, elutes, exults, faults, flatus, flouts, flutes, fluyts, gaults, glouts, guilts, hustle, insult, justle, justly, letups, litmus, locust, lunets, lusted, luster, lustra, lustre, lutist, lutzes, moults, mulcts, poults, quilts, result, rustle, salute, saults, sculpt, sleuth, slutty, solute, studly, stulls, stylus, sublet, sublot, subtle, subtly, sultan, sultry, sunlit, sutler, taluks, thurls, thusly, tousle, trulls, tulips, tulles, tussal, tussle, ulster, ultras, vaults.