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Definition of Lustless
1. a. Lacking vigor; weak; spiritless.
Definition of Lustless
1. Adjective. Without sexual lust. ¹
2. Adjective. (obsolete) Lacking vigour; weak; spiritless. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lustless
1. feeble [adj] - See also: feeble
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lustless
Literary usage of Lustless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Select Poets of Great Britain: To which are Prefixed, Criticial Notices of by William Hazlitt (1825)
"... So lustless been they, so weak, so wan ; Clothed with ... All for theii' master
is lustless and old. ..."
2. The Chief Elizabethan Dramatists, Excluding Shakespeare by William Allan Neilson (1911)
"Baj. By Mahomet my kinsman's sepulchre. And by the holy Alcoran I swear, w He
shall be made a chaste and lustless eunuch, ..."
3. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... with shrill sharps ; as purposely he song "I' awake the lustless Sun ; or
chiding, that so long He was in coining forth, that should the thicket* ..."
4. Cotton as a World Power: A Study in the Economic Interpretation of History by James Augustin Brown Scherer (1916)
"... The beast is lustless, sexless, fireless, mute: The plant with plant his hungry
paunch doth feed, Th' admired beast is sowen a slender seed. ..."
5. Specimens of the Early English Poets: To which is Prefixed, an Historical by George Ellis (1811)
"My lustless limbs do pine away, Because my heart is dead within; All lively heat
I feel decay, And deadly cold his room doth win: My humours all are out of ..."
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