lustful

• lustfull (archaic)

From Middle English lustful, from Old English lustfull (“desirous, wishful”); equivalent to lust +‎ -ful. Cognate with Dutch lustvol (“lustful, lusty”), German lustvoll (“pleasurable”), Swedish lustfyllt (“pleasurable”), Swedish lustfyllda (“lustful”).

• enPR: lûst′fl̩, IPA^(key): /ˈlʌst.fəl/

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lustful (comparative more lustful, superlative most lustful)

1. Full of lust; driven by lust.
   • 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 161:

     Many of the so-called rites of these secret societies were so patently ridiculous, that it is quite obvious that they were merely an excuse for men and women to indulge in sex-play and lustful gratification, frequently of an abnormal kind.

• concupiscent
• amorous

• lustfully
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