lustless

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adjective

Without sexual lust.

Scrabble 8

Meanings

adjectivelustless (comparative more lustless, superlative most lustless)

comparative more lustless · superlative most lustless

  1. Without sexual lust.

    But then, Bergler also claims that there are no genuinely ambi-erotic individuals, only "homosexuals who may be capable of lustless mechanical sex...

    1964, J Z Eglinton, Paul Goodman, Greek Love
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    By Mahomet, my Kinſmans ſepulcher, And by the holy Alcaron I ſweare, He ſhall be made a chaſte and luſtleſſe Eunuch, And in my Sarell tend my Concubines:

    c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene iii
  2. obsoleteLacking vigour; weak, tame or spiritless.

    Seemeth thy flocke thy counsell can, So lustlesse bene they, so weake so wan,

    1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Februarie. Ægloga Secunda.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC

Origin

  1. Middle Englishlustles
  2. Englishlustless

From Middle English lustles, equivalent to lust + -less. Cognate with Dutch lusteloos, German lustlos. Doublet of listless.

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Chicago

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