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Definition: Lustful |
LustfulAdjective1. Characterized by lust; "eluding the lubricious embraces of her employer"; "her sensuous grace roused his lustful nature"; "prurient literature"; "prurient thoughts"; "a salacious rooster of a little man". 2. Driven by lust; preoccupied with or exhibiting lustful desires; "libidinous orgies". 3. Vigorously passionate. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "lustful" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonyms: LustfulSynonyms: lascivious (adj), lewd (adj), libidinous (adj), lubricious (adj), lusty (adj), prurient (adj), salacious (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Impurity | Concupiscent, prurient, lickerish, rampant, lustful; carnal, carnal-minded; lewd, lascivious, lecherous, libidinous, erotic, ruttish, salacious; Paphian; voluptuous; goatish, must, musty. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Lustful |
| English words defined with "lustful": Blissom ♦ Codding, Concupiscent, Concupiscible ♦ Gat-toothed ♦ Ithyphallic ♦ lascivious, lewd, libidinous, Lickerish, Lickerous, lubricious, lustfully ♦ Petulcous, prurient ♦ salacious ♦ Tentiginous ♦ Venereous. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "lustful": Baptism. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "lustful": salacious. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | They filled the house with laughter and sin, laughter and sin. And if I ever went down among them, my own father and brothers - they would tell me to go away and pray, and I prayed - and left them with their lustful red and white women (The Old Dark House; writing credit: J.B. Priestley; Benn W. Levy) From now on we are enemies, you and I. Because you choose for your instrument a boastful, lustful, smutty, infantile boy and give me only the ability to recognize the incarnation (Amadeus; writing credit: Peter Shaffer;) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Lustful Addiction (2003) The Lustful Turk (1968) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Theater & Movies | |
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| "Lustful" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Lustful" is used about 40 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 40 | 54,274 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
lustful | 44 |
carnal lustful | 10 |
lustful woman | 8 |
lustful story | 5 |
lustful teen | 5 |
lady lustful | 3 |
lustful poem | 3 |
lustful teen young | 3 |
adult fun horney hot lustful | 2 |
lustful wife | 2 |
lustful sex | 2 |
the lustful turk | 2 |
girl lustful | 2 |
addiction lustful | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "lustful"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | plot epsh, epshor (concupiscent, horny, lascivious, lecherous, libidinous, prurient, voluptuous). (various references) | |
Arabic | غلم, شهواني (amorous, carnal, erotic, instinctive, lascivious, lewd, libidinous, lickerish, lush, luxurious, passionate, randy, salacious, satyr, sensual, sensualist, sportive, sultry, voluptuary, voluptuous, wanton, warm), شبق (libidinous, lickerish, lust, rut, salacious, salaciousness, satyr, sultriness). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | страстен (amorous, eager, enthusiastic, fervent, fierce, gutsy, impassioned, keen, libidinous, passional, passionate, sulphurous, sultry, vehement, violent), сладострастен (erotic, lascivious, sensual, voluptuous), похотлив (carnal, concupiscent, lascivious, lewd, libidinous, lickerish, prurient, raunchy, rutish, salacious). (various references) | |
Chinese | 嫪 . (various references) | |
Czech | vilný (lecherous). (various references) | |
Farsi | شهوانی (Brutal, Carnal, Lascivious, Lecherous, Passionate, Random, Ruttish, Salacious, Sensual, Voluptuous). (various references) | |
French | luxurieux (lustily). (various references) | |
German | wollüstig (ecstatic, lascivious, lecherous, lecherously, lusty, salacious, sensual, voluptuous), Geil (brilliant, fat, fatty, fertile, greasy, horny, lecherous, lustily, luxurious, prurient, randy, rank, raunchy, rich, wicked). (various references) | |
Greek | λάγνοσ (concupiscent, lecher, lecherous, lewd, libidinous, prurient, salacious, sexy). (various references) | |
Hebrew | תאותן (greedy), תאות י (lascivious, lecherous, lewd, libidinous, lickerish, passionate, prurient, salacious, sensual, voluptuous), חמ"ן (greedy), חמ" י (greedy). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kéjvágyó (lascivious, lecherous, prurient, randy). (various references) | |
Indonesian | gasang (lascivious, lecherous). (various references) | |
Italian | lussurioso (lascivious, lewd, licentious, salacious, voluptuous), lascivo (lascivious, lecherous, lewd, lustily, prurient, Randy, voluptuous, wanton). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 女好き (fondness for women, lustful man, spoony, woman admirer), 好色家 (lustful person). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | お"なずき (fondness for women, lustful man, spoony, woman admirer), "うしょくか (lustful person). (various references) | |
Manx | sayntoilagh (concupiscent, coveter), sayntoil (covetous), sayntagh (acquisitive, avaricious, covetous, grasping, hungry as eye; too deep, hungry; too deep), miandagh (addict, craver, desirable, desirous), glieemianagh (concupiscent, suggestive), er cannoo (amorous, aroused, sexually precocious, sexy), cannooagh (amorous, lecherous, smutty). (various references) | |
Norwegian | vellystig (lascivious). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ustfullay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | lúbrico (lewd, lubricous, prurient, sensual), sensual (amative, bestial, boarish, brutish, carnal, concupiscent, epicurean, fleshly, goatish, high-sounding, incontinent, lascivious, lewd, libidinous, lubricous, sensual, sensuous, sexy, unreserved, voluptuous, wanton), concupiscente (concupiscent). (various references) | |
Romanian | senzual (amative, carnal, concupiscent, fleshly, fleshy, full-blooded, lecherous, luxurious, Randy, salacious, sensual, sensuous, voluptuous), desfrânat (abandoned, bad, debauched, dissipated, dissolute, incontinent, lewd, lickerish, man of pleasure, meretricious, profligate, raffish, rake, rakish, reinless, reprobate, reveller, ribald, rioter, riotous, rip, ruttish, salacious, unchaste, unrestrained, unruly, wanton, whoremaster). (various references) | |
Russian | похотливый (concupiscent, fulsome, goatish, lascivious, lewd, lickerish, lubricous, prurient, rammish, randy, salacious). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | sladostrasan, pohotljiv (concupiscent, fleshly, goatish, goaty, lascivious, lecherous, libidinous, lusty, prurient, rammish, randy, salacious, voluptuous), požudan (greedy). (various references) | |
Spanish | lujurioso (lecherous, lewd), libidinoso (lecherous, libidinous), cachondo (fast, horny, hot, lustily, randy). (various references) | |
Swedish | vällustig (lascivious, lecherous, libidinous, voluptuary, voluptuous), lysten (desirous, greedy, itching, prurient). (various references) | |
Thai | เต็มไป"้วยราคะ. (various references) | |
Turkish | şehvetli (concupiscent, fleshly, hot, lascivious, prurient, salacious, sensual, voluptuous), şehvani. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | похітливий (concupiscent, prurient, rammish, salacious, warm). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | dâm dật (lascivious, libidinous), dâm đâng; đầy khát vọng, đầy dục vọng. (various references) | |
Welsh | rhewydd (wanton), chwantus, blysig (greedy). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | lascivus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "lustful": lustfully, lustfulness, lustfulnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Lustful" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Lutfur, pushful. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "lustful" (pronounced lu"stful) |
| 6 | -u" s t f u l | distrustful, mistrustful. |
| 5 | -s t f u l | boastful, distasteful, fistful, tasteful, restful, wasteful, wistful, zestful. |
| 4 | -t f u l | artful, deceitful, delightful, disrespectful, doubtful, eventful, fateful, fitful, forgetful, fretful, frightful, fruitful, grateful, hateful, hurtful, spiteful, tactful, insightful, neglectful, regretful, resentful, respectful, rightful, thoughtful, uneventful, ungrateful. |
| 3 | -f u l | apocryphal, awful, baffle, baleful, bashful, beautiful, blissful, bountiful, careful, cheerful, colorful, disdainful, disgraceful, doleful, dreadful, duffel, dutiful, faithful, falafel, fanciful, fearful, flavorful, forceful, gainful, gleeful, graceful, harmful, healthful, helpful, hopeful, houseful, sorrowful, soulful, stifle, stressful, successful, suspenseful, tearful, thankful, joyful, kerfuffle, lawful, masterful, meaningful, merciful, mindful, mournful, muffle, needful, painful, panful, peaceful, pitiful, playful, plentiful, powerful, prayerful, purposeful, raffle, remorseful, reshuffle, resourceful, riffle, rifle, rueful, ruffle, scornful, scuffle, shameful, shuffle, sinful, skillful, trifle, triumphal, truffle, truthful, tuneful, unfaithful, unhealthful, unhelpful, unlawful, unsuccessful, untruthful, useful, vengeful, waffle, watchful, willful, wishful, woeful, wonderful, worshipful, wrongful, youthful. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "f-l-l-s-t-u-u" | |
-2 letters: fulls, lulus, stull. | |
-3 letters: flus, full, lulu, lust, sulu, ulus. | |
-4 letters: flu, ulu, uts. | |
-5 letters: us, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "f-l-l-s-t-u-u" | |
+2 letters: lustfully, resultful. | |
+3 letters: trustfully. | |
+4 letters: lustfulness, tumblerfuls. | |
+5 letters: disgustfully, fruitfullest, mournfullest. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Translations: Ancient 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Bibliography |
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