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Yes. The word lust is a Scrabble US word. The word lust is worth 4 points in Scrabble:

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4-letter words (2 found)

LUST,SLUT,

3-letter words (1 found)

UTS,

2-letter words (3 found)

ST,US,UT,

You can make 6 words from lust according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of lust

lust ulst lsut slut uslt sult luts ults ltus tlus utls tuls lstu sltu ltsu tlsu stlu tslu ustl sutl utsl tusl stul tsul

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Definitions and meaning of lust

lust

Etymology

From Middle English lust, from Old English lust (“lust, pleasure, longing”), from Proto-West Germanic *lustu, from Proto-Germanic *lustuz.

Akin to Old Saxon, Dutch lust, Old Frisian, Old High German, German Lust, Swedish lust, Danish lyst, Icelandic lyst, Old Norse losti, Gothic 𐌻𐌿𐍃𐍄𐌿𐍃 (lustus), and perhaps to Sanskrit लष् (laṣ), लषति (laṣati, “to desire”) and Albanian lushë (“bitch, savage dog, promiscuous woman”), or to English loose. Compare list (“to please”), listless.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lʌst/
  • Rhymes: -ʌst

Noun

lust (countable and uncountable, plural lusts)

  1. A feeling of strong desire, especially such a feeling driven by sexual arousal.
  2. (archaic) A general want or longing, not necessarily sexual.
  3. (archaic) A delightful cause of joy, pleasure.
  4. (obsolete) virility; vigour; active power

Synonyms

  • (strong desire): See also Thesaurus:craving or Thesaurus:lust
  • (general want or longing): See also Thesaurus:desire
  • (delightful cause of joy): See also Thesaurus:pleasure
  • (active power): lustihood, potency, vigour, virility

Antonyms

  • chastity

Derived terms

Related terms

  • wanderlust

Translations

Verb

lust (third-person singular simple present lusts, present participle lusting, simple past and past participle lusted)

  1. (intransitive, usually in the phrase "lust after") To look at or watch with a strong desire, especially of a sexual nature.

Derived terms

  • lust after

Translations

Anagrams

  • LUTs, UTSL, slut, ults

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lʏst/
  • Hyphenation: lust
  • Rhymes: -ʏst

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch lust, from Old Dutch *lust, from Proto-West Germanic *lustu, from Proto-Germanic *lustuz.

Noun

lust m (plural lusten, diminutive lustje n)

  1. lust, desire (especially sexual, but also more generally)
  2. object of desire
  3. pleasure, joy
  4. (usually in the plural) benefit, advantage
  5. a taste for, strong tendency to
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Afrikaans: lus
  • Negerhollands: lyst

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

lust

  1. inflection of lusten:
    1. first/second/third-person singular present indicative
    2. imperative

Estonian

Etymology

From Middle Low German lust. Cognate to German Lust and Finnish lusti.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlusʲt/

Noun

lust (genitive lusti, partitive lusti)

  1. pleasure, fun, joy, lust (non-sexual)

Declension

Descendants

  • → Ingrian: lusti (“beautiful, funny”)
  • → Votic: lusti (“beautiful”)

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *lust, from Proto-West Germanic *lustu, from Proto-Germanic *lustuz.

Noun

lust m or f

  1. enjoyment, pleasure
  2. lust, desire
  3. hunger, desire to eat

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

  • onlust

Descendants

  • Dutch: lust
    • Afrikaans: lus
    • Negerhollands: lyst

Further reading

  • “lust”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
  • Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “lust (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *lustu, from Proto-Germanic *lustuz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lust/

Noun

lust m

  1. desire, pleasure, appetite, lust
    • Him wæs metes micel lust ― he had a craving for food. (Ælfric's Homilies)

Declension

Descendants

  • Middle English: lust
    • English: lust

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse losti (late Old Norse lyst), from Middle Low German lust lüst, lyst, from Old Saxon lust, from Proto-West Germanic *lustu.

Pronunciation

Noun

lust c

  1. desire to do something
    1. (in "ha lust") to feel like, to want (to do something)
    2. (in "tappa lusten") to lose one's desire to do something, to lose one's enthusiasm for something
  2. sexual desire
    Synonym: (often) lusta
  3. (somewhat dated) joy, delight

Usage notes

The tone in "ha lust" and "tappa lusten" matches "feel like doing" or "want" rather than "desire" or "lust for" or the like. Thought of as a separate, non-literary-sounding sense of "lust" by native speakers.

Declension

Derived terms

  • förlusta
  • förlustelse
  • läslust
  • lustgas
  • lusthus
  • lustjakt
  • lustmord
  • lustresa
  • lustspel
  • söklust

Related terms

  • lusta
  • lustig
  • lysten
  • lystnad

References

  • lust in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • lust in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
  • lust in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

  • luts, slut

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian lust, from Proto-West Germanic *lustu.

Noun

lust c (plural lusten)

  1. desire, appetite
  2. lust, sexual desire

Derived terms

  • ytlust

Further reading

  • “lust”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Source: wiktionary.org