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lust·ful

 (lŭst′fəl)
adj.
Excited or driven by lust.

lust′ful·ly adv.
lust′ful·ness n.
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lustful

(ˈlʌstfʊl)
adj
1. driven by lust
2. archaic vigorous or lusty
ˈlustfully adv
ˈlustfulness n
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lust•ful

(ˈlʌst fəl)

adj.
1. full of or motivated by lust.
2. Archaic. lusty.
[before 900]
lust′ful•ly, adv.
lust′ful•ness, n.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.lustful - 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"
sexy - marked by or tending to arouse sexual desire or interest; "feeling sexy"; "sexy clothes"; "sexy poses"; "a sexy book"; "sexy jokes"
2.lustful - driven by lust; preoccupied with or exhibiting lustful desires; "libidinous orgies"
sexy - marked by or tending to arouse sexual desire or interest; "feeling sexy"; "sexy clothes"; "sexy poses"; "a sexy book"; "sexy jokes"
3.lustful - vigorously passionate
passionate - having or expressing strong emotions
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lustful

adjective lascivious, sexy (informal), passionate, erotic, craving, sensual, randy (informal, chiefly Brit.), raunchy (slang), horny (slang), hankering, lewd, wanton, carnal, prurient, lecherous, hot-blooded, libidinous, licentious, concupiscent, unchaste He can't stop himself from having lustful thoughts.
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lustful

adjective
Feeling or devoted to sexual love or desire:
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Translations
شَهْواني، شَبَقي
chtivý
begærlig
kéjsóvár
lostafullur

lustful

[ˈlʌstfʊl] ADJlujurioso, libidinoso; [look] → lascivo, lleno de deseo
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

lustful

[ˈlʌstfʊl] adjlascif/ive
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

lustful

adj, lustfully
advlüstern
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

lustful

[ˈlʌstfʊl] adjpieno/a di desiderio
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

lust

(last) noun
(a) very strong desire. a lust for power.
ˈlustful adjective
ˈlustfully adverb
ˈlusty adjective
1. strong and loud. The baby gave a lusty yell.
2. strong and healthy. a lusty young man.
ˈlustily adverb
ˈlustiness noun
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References in classic literature ?
It is bad to live in cities: there, there are too many of the lustful.
Is it not better to fall into the hands of a murderer, than into the dreams of a lustful woman?
There is then in all persons a natural impetus to associate with each other in this manner, and he who first founded civil society was the cause of the greatest good; for as by the completion of it man is the most excellent of all living beings, so without law and justice he would be the worst of all, for nothing is so difficult to subdue as injustice in arms: but these arms man is born with, namely, prudence and valour, which he may apply to the most opposite purposes, for he who abuses them will be the most wicked, the most cruel, the most lustful, and most gluttonous being imaginable; for justice is a political virtue, by the rules of it the state is regulated, and these rules are the criterion of what is right.
And all my austere nights of midnight oil, all the books I had read, all the wisdom I had gathered, went glimmering before the ape and tiger in me that crawled up from the abysm of my heredity, atavistic, competitive and brutal, lustful with strength and desire to outswine the swine.
And the tyrannical man in the true sense of the word comes into being when, either under the influence of nature, or habit, or both, he becomes drunken, lustful, passionate?
He began to have lustful thoughts and pulling down the shade of the window closed his eyes and turned his face to the wall.
Yet thence his lustful Orgies he enlarg'd Even to that Hill of scandal, by the Grove Of MOLOCH homicide, lust hard by hate; Till good JOSIAH drove them thence to Hell.
In her absurd mood of lustful arrogance, Mary looked at the little figures and thought, "If I liked I could make you go in there or stop short; I could make you walk in single file or in double file; I could do what I liked with you." Then Mrs.
I'm lustful. I'm overcome by a sense of futility--incompetence.
As soon as doubt was gone so was the lustful desire.
Hypocrite Angelo - the wonderfully despicable Sandy Grierson - tells Claudio's novice nun sister Isabella she must succumb to his lustful desires to save her brother.
"After Maiya's death, Phakhin told law enforcement that she and Smith were trying to remove the lustful demons from Maiya.