lustful

/'lʌstful/

Thân thiện

A man gazes lustfully at a woman across the room.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Driven by or exhibiting intense sexual desire: Describes a person, feelings, or behavior characterized by strong, often uncontrolled, carnal appetite.
   • Vigorously passionate: Can describe an intense, ardent eagerness or craving, though this usage is less common and often contextually linked to desire.

Examples of Usage

• Adjective:
  • He gave her a lustful glance across the room. (This describes a look filled with sexual desire.)
  • The villain in the story was portrayed as a lustful tyrant. (This describes a person driven by sexual appetite.)
  • She felt a sudden, lustful urge. (This describes an intense feeling of sexual desire.)

Advanced Usage

• "Lustful thoughts": Thoughts preoccupied with sexual desire.
  • He struggled to suppress his lustful thoughts.
• "Lustful eyes" or "a lustful gaze": A way of looking that explicitly conveys sexual desire.
  • The painting depicted the god with lustful eyes fixed on the mortal woman.

Variants and Related Words

• Lust (n): Intense sexual desire or a powerful craving for something.
  • His lust for power was his downfall.
• Lustfully (adv): In a manner showing intense sexual desire.
  • He stared lustfully at the treasure.
• Lustfulness (n): The state or quality of being lustful.

Synonyms

• Libidinous: Having or showing strong sexual desire.
• Lascivious: Feeling or revealing an overt and often offensive sexual desire.
• Lewd: Crude and offensive in a sexual way.
• Prurient: Having or encouraging an excessive interest in sexual matters.
• Salacious: Treating sexual matters in a titillating or indecent way.

Antonyms

• Chaste: Abstaining from extramarital, or from all, sexual intercourse; without sexual desire.
• Pure: Free from sexual immorality.
• Asexual: Without sexual feelings or associations.

Related Idioms and Phrases

• "Lustful heart": A heart or character dominated by carnal desire.
  • The preacher warned against a lustful heart.
• "Lustful intent": The specific aim or purpose driven by sexual desire, often used in legal or moral contexts.
  • He was accused of assault with lustful intent.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. vigorously passionate
2. driven by lust; preoccupied with or exhibiting lustful desires
   • libidinous orgies
3. characterized by lust
   • eluding the lubricious embraces of her employer
   • her sensuous grace roused his lustful nature
   • prurient literature
   • prurient thoughts
   • a salacious rooster of a little man

Từ đồng nghĩa

• lusty
• concupiscent
• lascivious
• lewd
• libidinous
• lubricious
• prurient
• salacious