Definitions for lusts

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lusts lust

Spelling: [luhst]

IPA: /lʌst/

Lusts is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 33 anagrams from letters in lusts (lsstu).

Definitions for lusts

noun

1. intense sexual desire or appetite.
2. uncontrolled or illicit sexual desire or appetite; lecherousness.
3. a passionate or overmastering desire or craving (usually followed by for):
4. ardent enthusiasm; zest; relish:
5. Obsolete. pleasure or delight. desire; inclination; wish.

verb (used without object)

1. to have intense sexual desire.
2. to have a yearning or desire; have a strong or excessive craving (often followed by for or after).

Origin of lusts

before 900; Middle English luste, Old English lust; cognate with Dutch, German lust pleasure, desire; akin to Old Norse lyst desire; see list⁴

Examples for lusts

But I say onto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

My God, the very thought of it fills me with the lust of conquest.

But despite being repeatedly shot down by experts, the tale of lust in the service of Allah is back.

The 2014 roster is even more pathetic: About Last Night, lust for Love, And So It Goes, Sex Tape.

She wasn't motivated by a lust for fame; she simply wanted to control the conversation.

But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.

And his small-scale sculpture Avarice and lust (1887) embodies the two sins via a masculine form entangled with a female one.

The offspring of pride, and lust, and avarice, it is indigenous to the world.

The mere presence of game does not breed in him a lust to slaughter something.

What a setting of blood and lust and flame and rapine for such a hero!