lustless

English

Etymology

From Middle English lustles, equivalent to lust +‎ -less. Cognate with Dutch lusteloos, German lustlos. Doublet of listless.

Adjective

lustless (comparative more lustless, superlative most lustless)

1. Without sexual lust.
   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene iii:

     By Mahomet, my Kinſmans ſepulcher,
     And by the holy Alcaron I ſweare,
     He ſhall be made a chaſte and luſtleſſe Eunuch,
     And in my Sarell tend my Concubines:

   • 1964, J Z Eglinton, Paul Goodman, Greek Love:

     But then, Bergler also claims that there are no genuinely ambi-erotic individuals, only "homosexuals who may be capable of lustless mechanical sex...

2. (obsolete) Lacking vigour; weak; spiritless.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “lustless”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)