Lust

Noun

 * 1) Strong desire, especially of a sexual nature.
 * Upon seeing Kim, I was filled with lust.
 * 1)  A general want or longing not necessarily sexual or devious.
 * ''The boarders hide their lust to go home.
 * 1)  A delightful cause of joy, pleasure.
 * ''An ideal son is his father's lasting lust.

Derived terms

 * lustful
 * lustihood
 * lustily
 * lustiness
 * lustless
 * lusty

Verb

 * 1)  To very strongly desire.
 * 2) To crave sexual contact urgently.

Adjectives for Lust
short-sighted; careless; burning; monstrous; ruffian; healthy; mad; hurtful; amber-scented; mute; melancholy; sordid; ignoble; worldly; hellish; alien; decrepit; devilish; unnatural; exceeding; inbred; vile; ever-craving; coarse; concupiscible; greedy; fleshy; intemperate; tyrannous; ominous; drunken.

Verbs for Lust
abhor—; cater to—; cool—conquer—; couch in—; extinguish—; intoxicate with—; loathe—; melt in—; quench—; resist—; satiate—; sink in—, —blemishes; —burns; —consumes; —corrupts; —decays; —defiles; —frenzies; —maddens; —massacres; — overthrows; —ruins; —scandalizes.

Adverbs for Lust
obscenely; insatiably; devilishly; ceaselessly; monstrously; madly; mutely; sordidly; ignobly; unnaturally; vilely; pervertedly; concupiscibly; intemperately; intoxicatedly; ominously.

Thesaurus
acedia, ache, ache for, acquisitiveness, ambition, andromania, anger, animality, animus, aphrodisia, appetence, appetency, appetite, appetition, avarice, avariciousness, avaritia, avidity, avidness, bawdiness, biological urge, bodily appetite, carnal desire, carnality, choice, clitoromania, command, conation, conatus, concupiscence, coveting, covetousness, crave, craving, cupidity, deadly sin, decision, desire, determination, dirtiness, discretion, disposition, drive, energy, envy, eromania, eroticism, eroticomania, eroticomaniac, erotism, erotomania, excitement, fancy, fervor, fleshliness, fleshly lust, free choice, free will, frenzy of desire, furor uterinus, fury of desire, gluttony, goatishness, grasping, graspingness, greed, greediness, gula, gynecomania, hanker, heat, hoggishness, horniness, hot blood, hot pants, hunger, hysteromania, inclination, incontinence, indecency, infantile sexuality, inordinate desire, insatiability, insatiable desire, intemperateness, intention, invidia, ira, itch, itching palm, lasciviousness, lecherousness, lechery, lewdness, libidinousness, libido, lickerishness, liking, lubriciousness, lubricity, lust after, lustfulness, luxuria, mind, nymphomania, objective, obscenity, overgreediness, passion, piggishness, pine, pleasure, polymorphous perversity, priapism, pride, prurience, pruriency, randiness, rapaciousness, rapacity, ravenousness, resolution, rut, salaciousness, salacity, satyriasis, satyrism, sensuality, sexiness, sexual desire, sexual longing, sexual passion, sexuality, sloth, sordidness, superbia, swinishness, thirst, urge, uteromania, velleity, venereal appetite, volition, voraciousness, voracity, will, will power, wish, wolfishness, wrath, yearn, yearning, yen

Etymology
lust:, from. 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", or to English loose:. Confer list:, listless:.

Noun

 * Arabic: رغبة, شهوة
 * Catalan: luxúria
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 淫欲
 * Czech:
 * Danish: begær,, liderlighed
 * Dutch: (zinnelijke) begeerte, lust, wellust
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: Wollust,
 * Greek:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:, ,


 * Japanese:, 淫欲
 * Polish: żądza, pożądanie
 * Portuguese: luxúria
 * Romanian: luxură, desfrânare, concupiscenţă
 * Russian:, похотливость,  ,  ,
 * Scottish Gaelic:, ana-miann
 * Serbian:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: begär, lust, åtrå
 * Turkish:, ihtiras,


 * Catalan: luxúria
 * Dutch:, ,


 * Finnish: ikävöinti, ikävä
 * Italian:


 * Catalan: luxúria
 * Dutch: ,


 * Finnish: ilo
 * Italian:


 * : επιθυμία
 * : luxuria
 * : gál, gálscipe
 * : luxúria
 * : drùis, feòlmhorachd , baois , baoiseachd
 * : lujuria

Verb

 * Danish: tørste efter, begære
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Finnish:


 * Greek: ποθώ
 * Hebrew: חמד, התאוה, השתוקק


 * Danish: begær, begære
 * Dutch:, ,


 * Finnish:


 * : désirer
 * : ersüchten

Anagrams

 * slut
 * UTSL

Noun

 * 1) lust, desire (especially sexual)
 * 2) pleasure, joy
 * Het was een lust om naar hem te kijken en te luisteren.
 * It was a pleasure watching and listening to him.
 * 1) benefit, advantage

Related terms

 * lusteloos
 * lusthof
 * lustig
 * lustoord
 * lustpriëel
 * lusttuin
 * wellust

Noun

 * 1) desire, pleasure, appetite, lust
 * Him wæs metes micel lust: he had a craving for food. (Ælfric's Homilies)

Noun

 * 1)  lust (a mood of desire), joy, a keen interest
 * jag har ingen lust att läsa idag
 * I don't feel like reading today
 * 1) a desire (for something specific)

Related terms

 * förlusta
 * förlustelse
 * läslust
 * lusta
 * lustgas
 * lusthus
 * lustig
 * lustjakt
 * lustresa
 * lustspel
 * lysten
 * lystnad
 * söklust