Word Meanings - LUST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

G., & Sw. lust, Dan. & Icel. lyst, Goth lustus, and perh. tom Skr. 1. Pleasure " Lust and jollity." Chaucer. 2. Inclination; desire. For little lust had she to talk of aught. Spenser. My lust to devotion is little. Bp. Hall. 3. Longing desire;

Additional info about word: LUST

G., & Sw. lust, Dan. & Icel. lyst, Goth lustus, and perh. tom Skr. 1. Pleasure " Lust and jollity." Chaucer. 2. Inclination; desire. For little lust had she to talk of aught. Spenser. My lust to devotion is little. Bp. Hall. 3. Longing desire; eagerness to possess or enjoy; -- in a had sense; as, the lust of gain. The lust of reigning. Milton. 4. Licentious craving; sexual appetite. Milton. 5. Hence: Virility; vigor; active power. Bacon.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of LUST)

• Passion
• Emotion
• desire
• ardor
• vehemence
• lust
• auger
• animation
• excitement
• warmth
• feeling

Related words: (words related to LUST)

• WARMTH
  The glowing effect which arises from the use of warm colors; hence, any similar appearance or effect in a painting, or work of color. Syn. -- Zeal; ardor; fervor; fervency; heat; glow; earnestness; cordiality; animation; eagerness; excitement;
• AUGER
  nave of a wheel + gar spear, and therefore meaning properly and 1. A carpenter's tool for boring holes larger than those bored by a gimlet. It has a handle placed crosswise by which it is turned with both hands. A pod auger is one with a straight
• FEELINGLY
  In a feeling manner; pathetically; sympathetically.
• PASSIONAL
  Of or pertaining to passion or the passions; exciting, influenced by, or ministering to, the passions. -- n.
• FEELER
  One of the sense organs or certain animals , which are used in testing objects by touch and in searching for food; an antenna; a palp. Insects . . . perpetually feeling and searching before them with their feelers or antennæ. Derham. 3. Anything,
• ANIMATION
  1. The act of animating, or giving life or spirit; the state of being animate or alive. The animation of the same soul quickening the whole frame. Bp. Hall. Perhaps an inanimate thing supplies me, while I am speaking, with whatever I posses of
• PASSIONLESS
  Void of passion; without anger or emotion; not easily excited; calm. "Self-contained and passionless." Tennyson.
• DESIREFUL
  Filled with desire; eager. The desireful troops. Godfrey .
• WARMTHLESS
  Being without warmth; not communicating warmth; cold. Coleridge.
• FEELING
  1. Possessing great sensibility; easily affected or moved; as, a feeling heart. 2. Expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing, sensibility; as, he made a feeling representation of his wrongs.
• EMOTIONALIZE
  To give an emotional character to. Brought up in a pious family where religion was not talked about emotionalized, but was accepted as the rule of thought and conduct. Froude.
• EMOTIONALISM
  The cultivation of an emotional state of mind; tendency to regard things in an emotional manner.
• DESIRE
  sidus star, constellation, and hence orig., to turn the eyes from the 1. To long for; to wish for earnestly; to covet. Neither shall any man desire thy land. Ex. xxxiv. 24. Ye desire your child to live. Tennyson. 2. To express a wish
• DESIRER
  One who desires, asks, or wishes.
• EMOTIONED
  Affected with emotion. "The emotioned soul." Sir W. Scott.
• FEEL
  f; akin to OS. gif to perceive, D. voelen to feel, OHG. fuolen, G. fühlen, Icel. falma to grope, and prob. to AS. folm paim of the hand, 1. To perceive by the touch; to take cognizance of by means of the nerves of sensation distributed all over
• DESIRELESS
  Free from desire. Donne.
• DESIREFULNESS
  The state of being desireful; eagerness to obtain and possess. The desirefulness of our minds much augmenteth and increaseth our pleasure. Udall.
• PASSIONATE
  1. Capable or susceptible of passion, or of different passions; easily moved, excited or agitated; specifically, easily moved to anger; irascible; quick-tempered; as, a passionate nature. Homer's Achilles is haughty and passionate. Prior.
• PASSIONARY
  A book in which are described the sufferings of saints and martyrs. T. Warton.
• COMPASSIONATELY
  In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.
• SAUGER
  An American fresh-water food fish ; -- called also gray pike, blue pike, hornfish, land pike, sand pike, pickering, and pickerel.
• INANIMATION
  Want of animation; lifeless; dullness.
• GAUGER
  One who gauges; an officer whose business it is to ascertain the contents of casks.
• OUTPASSION
  To exceed in passion.
• INCOMPASSIONATE
  Not compassionate; void of pity or of tenderness; remorseless. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ly, adv. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ness, n.
• REANIMATION
  The act or operation of reanimating, or the state of being reanimated; reinvigoration; revival.
• MISFEELING
  Insensate. Wyclif.
• IMPASSIONABLE
  Excitable; susceptible of strong emotion.
• IMPASSIONATE
  Strongly affected. Smart.
• EMPASSION
  To move with passion; to affect strongly. See Impassion. Those sights empassion me full near. Spenser.
• FELLOW-FEELING
  1. Sympathy; a like feeling. 2. Joint interest. Arbuthnot.
• IMPASSION
  To move or affect strongly with passion. Chapman.
• DISPASSIONED
  Free from passion; dispassionate. "Dispassioned men." Donne.