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lustuous

lustuous adjective: characterised by lust or lustfulness; lustful.

Adjective

lustuous (comparative more lustuous, superlative most lustuous)

  1. Characterised by lust or lustfulness; lustful
    • Now, there was nothing lustuous about the dream, but I have this little sense of guilt about dreaming I was spending time with another woman while my wife's away.1988, Fraser Boa, Marie-Louise Von Franz, The Way of the Dream, page 47
    • I know. I'm a sinner. I have lustuous thoughts every day.2007, Larry Brown, Dirty Work, page 20

Examples of lustuous in a sentence

  • It is not for me to understand but accept as my friend lay beside him young and lustuous and beautiful.2013, Ana Locke, Behind Closed Doors:
  • The face of the Negero^([sic]) indicating a mixture of a beastial spirit and lustuous might of body prehending.2017, Raphael Falk, Zionism and the Biology of Jews, page 19:

Forms of lustuous

comparativemore lustuous
superlativemost lustuous

Origin of lustuous

From lust + -uous.

Questions about lustuous

What does lustuous mean?
Lustuous means characterised by lust or lustfulness; lustful.
How do you use lustuous in a sentence?
It is not for me to understand but accept as my friend lay beside him young and lustuous and beautiful.
What part of speech is lustuous?
Lustuous is an adjective.

Words near lustuous in the dictionary

  1. lustrum
  2. lustrums
  3. lusts
  4. lusts after
  5. lustsome
  6. lustuous
  7. lustwort
  8. lustworthy
  9. lusty
  10. lusupultide
  11. lusus

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