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LUSTY
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Irregular inflected forms: lustier , lustiest
I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Endowed with or exhibiting great bodily or mental health
Example:
a hearty glow of health
Synonyms:
full-blooded; hearty; lusty; red-blooded
Classified under:
Similar:
healthy (having or indicating good health in body or mind; free from infirmity or disease)
Derivation:
lustiness (the property of being strong and healthy in constitution)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Vigorously passionate
Synonyms:
concupiscent; lustful; lusty
Classified under:
Similar:
passionate (having or expressing strong emotions)
Derivation:
lust (self-indulgent sexual desire (personified as one of the deadly sins))
lust (a strong sexual desire)
Context examples:
I have served under Sir Thomas de Bray, who was as jolly as a pie, and a lusty swordsman until he got too fat for his harness.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
So they lived, these men, in their own lusty, cheery fashion—rude and rough, but honest, kindly and true.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It passes me, he cried, how all you lusty fellows can bide scratching your backs at home when there are such doings over the seas.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The lusty knight, on the other hand, was clad in the very latest mode, with cote-hardie, doublet, pourpoint, court-pie, and paltock of olive-green, picked out with pink and jagged at the edges.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He was a tall, lusty, middle-aged man with a ruddy face, a brown forked beard shot with gray, and a broad Flanders hat set at the back of his head.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“You may find the scath yourself, my lusty friend, if you raise your great cudgel to me. I had as lief have the castle drawbridge drop upon my pate.”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Yet with consummate horsemanship they both swung round in a long curvet, and then plucking out their swords they lashed at each other like two lusty smiths hammering upon an anvil.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
To his right walked a huge red-headed man, with broad smile and merry twinkle, whose clothes seemed to be bursting and splitting at every seam, as though he were some lusty chick who was breaking bravely from his shell.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Then on the morrow, if he made complaint, this wicked Gourval would throw him out upon the road or beat him, for he was a very lusty man, and had many stout varlets in his service.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
And there all day, and day after day, there was bustle and crowding and labor, while the great ships loaded up, and one after the other spread their white pinions and darted off to the open sea, amid the clash of cymbals and rolling of drums and lusty shouts of those who went and of those who waited.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
