LUSTY (lustier, lustiest)

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Irregular inflected forms: lustier    , lustiest   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does lusty mean? 

• LUSTY (adjective)
  The adjective LUSTY has 2 senses:

1. vigorously passionate

2. endowed with or exhibiting great bodily or mental health

  Familiarity information: LUSTY used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LUSTY (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Vigorously passionate

Synonyms:

concupiscent; lustful; lusty

Similar:

passionate (having or expressing strong emotions)

Derivation:

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

lust (a strong sexual desire)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Endowed with or exhibiting great bodily or mental health

Synonyms:

full-blooded; hearty; lusty; red-blooded

Context example:

a hearty glow of health

Similar:

healthy (having or indicating good health in body or mind; free from infirmity or disease)

Derivation:

lustiness (the property of being strong and healthy in constitution)

 Context examples 

Fair cousin, he continued, turning to the prince, these be rare men-at-arms and lusty bowmen.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He had his chair moved to escape the embrace of this lusty comrade of old days and nights.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The little fellow, who was holding her apron, gave such a lusty shout, that the sound of it made him bashful, and he buried his face in her skirts, to her great admiration.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The hunters, grizzled and gray, and lusty and young, were aghast.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

She was pretty and soft, but she weighed one hundred and twenty pounds—a lusty last straw to the load dragged by the weak and starving animals.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

The lusty man next him with the red head I have not seen before.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Is it not enow to make a man's heart dance to see this noble Company, such valiant men-at-arms, such lusty archers?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Leaving the lusty knight and the Mayor of Lepe, Sir Nigel led the Company straight down to the water's edge, where long lines of flat lighters swiftly bore them to their vessel.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“A Welsh dagsman, i' faith! C'etait mauvais gout, camarade, and the more so when she had a jolly archer and a lusty man-at-arms to choose from.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Ah, sir, you speak of dogs, cried Aylward; but there are a pack of lusty hounds who are ready for any quarry, if they have but a good huntsman to halloo them on.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)