lusty

/'lʌsti/

Thân thiện

A lusty baby laughs heartily in her high chair.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Strong and healthy; full of vigor: Describes someone or something possessing great physical strength, vitality, or robust health.
   • Heartily enthusiastic or vigorous: Describes an action performed with great energy, force, or gusto.
   • (Archaic) Lustful; vigorously passionate: An older meaning describing strong sexual desire or passion.

Usage Examples

• Describing a person's health and vigor:
  • The farmer was a lusty fellow, able to work from dawn till dusk.
  • After her recovery, she felt lusty and ready to resume her activities.
• Describing an action done with vigor:
  • The crowd gave a lusty cheer when the team scored.
  • He sang the anthem in a lusty voice that filled the hall.
• (Archaic usage):
  • The poem spoke of a lusty knight and his desires.

Advanced Usage

• "Lusty growth": Used to describe plants or other things growing in a strong, healthy, and vigorous manner.
  • The seeds, planted in rich soil, showed lusty growth within weeks.
• "Lusty appetite": Describes a very strong and healthy desire for food.
  • The hike gave the children a lusty appetite.

Variants and Related Words

• Lustily (adverb): In a strong, healthy, or vigorous manner.
  • The baby cried lustily, indicating good health.
• Lustiness (noun): The quality or state of being lusty; vigor.
  • The lustiness of his singing was impressive.

Synonyms

• Robust: Strong and healthy; vigorous.
• Hearty: Showing warm and heartfelt enthusiasm; also, strong and healthy.
• Vigorous: Strong, healthy, and full of energy.
• Stalwart: Loyal, reliable, and hard-working; also, physically strong.
• Hale: (Especially of an old person) strong and healthy.

Antonyms

• Feeble: Lacking physical strength, especially as a result of age or illness.
• Weak: Lacking the power to perform physically demanding tasks.
• Languid: Displaying or having a disinclination for physical exertion or effort; slow and relaxed.
• Frail: (Of a person) weak and delicate.

Idioms and Phrases

• "Lusty as a bull": An informal simile emphasizing great physical strength and vigor.
  • After months of training, he felt lusty as a bull.
• "In lusty form": Performing or appearing with great energy and strength.
  • The choir was in lusty form for the final performance.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. endowed with or exhibiting great bodily or mental health
   • a hearty glow of health
2. vigorously passionate

Từ đồng nghĩa

• hearty
• full-blooded
• red-blooded
• lustful
• concupiscent