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Definition of Lusty

1. Adjective. Vigorously passionate.

2. Adjective. Endowed with or exhibiting great bodily or mental health. "A hearty glow of health"

Definition of Lusty

1. a. Exhibiting lust or vigor; stout; strong; vigorous; robust; healthful; able of body.

Definition of Lusty

1. Adjective. Strong, healthy and vigorous. ¹

2. Adjective. hearty and enthusiastic. ¹

3. Adjective. (informal proscribed) Given to experiencing lust; enjoying physical sensations. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Lusty

1. full of vigor [adj LUSTIER, LUSTIEST]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lusty

lustreware lustrical lustrine lustrines lustring lustrings lustrious lustrous lustrously lustrousness

lustrousnesses lustrum lustrums lusts lustwort lusty (current term) lusus lusus naturae lusus naturæ lususes

lutanist lutanists lutarious lutation lutations lute lute-backed lutea luteal luteal cell

Literary usage of Lusty

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Tait's Edinburgh Magazine by William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone (1842)
"And how should this advocate not be a gainer, When he 's snug on the Bench, and now needs no retainer ? B. THE lusty PEN. ..."

2. Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions by Robert Chambers (1847)
"... And on her spacious breast (with heaths that doth Encircled my fair fount with many a lusty round : And of the British floods, though but the third I be ..."

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