noun, verb
noun (often disapproving) [U,C]
1 ~ (for sb) very strong sexual desire, especially when love is not involved:
Their affair was driven by pure lust.
2 ~ (for sth) very strong desire for sth or enjoyment of sth:
to satisfy his lust for power / revenge * She has a real lust for life (= she really enjoys life).
seealsoBLOODLUST
Part of speech: verb
PHRASALVERBS
lust after / for sb/sth (often disapproving) to feel an extremely strong, especially sexual, desire for sb/sth
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for lust is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is lust a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, lust is tagged as verb.
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