lustily
lustily adverb: in a lusty manner: vigorously, loudly, enthusiastically.
Adverb
lustily (comparative more lustily, superlative most lustily)
- In a lusty manner: vigorously, loudly, enthusiastically.
- […] I walked lustily in the park by moonshine till eight, to shake off my dinner and wine; […]1711, Journal to Stella, Jonathan Swift, Letter XXXVIII, p. 236
- As I entered the room, the fire from the large square stove, where the logs were burning lustily, threw a red, flickering light through the wide-open door over the room[.]1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 4
lustily meaning in Bengali and Malayalam
lustily in Bengali
- তেজস্বী ভাবে, জোরে, উৎসাহের সাথে
lustily in Malayalam
- vigorously, heartily, loudly
- മദത്തോടെ, സാഹ്ലാദം, ഹൃദയപൂർവ്വമായി, ഉത്സാഹത്തോടെ, ഊർജ്ജസ്വലമായി, ഹാർദ്ദമായി
Examples of lustily in a sentence
- Then, while some of the others gathered around the girl played "Waiting for the Wagon," "Aunt Dinah's Quilting Party," and a number of other favorites, and these the crowd sang lustily.1908, Arthur M. Winfield, The Rover Boys on the Farm, Ch. XIX, p. 151:
- Momma, Monique, and Paula retreat to a corner of the kitchen while the main party, including old Johnny who has winked lustily at Momma's backside all night long, stays behind in the living room…1991, Lee Maracle, Sundogs, page 34:
Forms of lustily
| comparative | more lustily |
|---|---|
| superlative | most lustily |
Origin of lustily
From lusty + -ly.
Questions about lustily
- What does lustily mean?
- Lustily means in a lusty manner: vigorously, loudly, enthusiastically.
- What is lustily in Bengali?
- Lustily in Bengali is তেজস্বী ভাবে, জোরে, উৎসাহের সাথে. See Lustily meaning in Bengali.
- How do you use lustily in a sentence?
- Then, while some of the others gathered around the girl played "Waiting for the Wagon," "Aunt Dinah's Quilting Party," and a number of other favorites, and these the crowd sang lustily.
- What part of speech is lustily?
- Lustily is an adverb.
Words near lustily in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: lustily (page history and authors); lustily (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); lustily (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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