LUST

lust, luxuria

(noun) self-indulgent sexual desire (personified as one of the deadly sins)

lecherousness, lust, lustfulness

(noun) a strong sexual desire

crave, hunger, thirst, starve, lust

(verb) have a craving, appetite, or great desire for

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

lust (countable and uncountable, plural lusts)

A feeling of strong desire, especially such a feeling driven by sexual arousal.

(archaic) A general want or longing, not necessarily sexual.

(archaic) A delightful cause of joy, pleasure.

(obsolete) virility; vigour; active power

Synonyms

• (strong desire): See also craving or lust

• (general want or longing): See also desire

• (delightful cause of joy): See also pleasure

• (active power): lustihood, potency, vigour, virility

Verb

lust (third-person singular simple present lusts, present participle lusting, simple past and past participle lusted)

(intransitive, usually in the phrase "lust after") To look at or watch with a strong desire, especially of a sexual nature.

Anagrams

• LUTs, UTSL, slut, ults

Source: Wiktionary

Lust, n. Etym: [AS. lust, lust, pleasure, longing; akin to OS., D., G., & Sw. lust, Dan. & Icel. lyst, Goth lustus, and perh. tom Skr. lush to desire, or to E. loose. Cf. List to please, Listless.]

1. Pleasure [Obs.] " Lust and jollity." Chaucer.

2. Inclination; desire. [Obs.] 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. [Obs.] Bacon.

Lust, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lusted; p. pr. & vb. n. Lusting.] Etym: [AS. lystan. See Lust, n., and cf. List to choose.]

1. To list; to like. [Obs.] Chaucer. " Do so if thou lust. " Latimer.

Note: In earlier usage lust was impersonal. In the water vessel he it cast When that him luste. Chaucer.

2. To have an eager, passionate, and especially an inordinate or sinful desire, as for the gratification of the sexual appetite or of covetousness; -- often with after. Whatsoever thy soul lusteth after. Deut. xii. 15. Whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her, hath committed adultery with her already in his heart. Matt. v. 28. The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy. James iv. 5.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition