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, tame or spiritless.
   • 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Februarie. Ægloga Secunda.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC; reprinted as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, The Shepheardes Calender […], London: John C. Nimmo, […], 1890, →OCLC:

     Seemeth thy flocke thy counsell can,
     So lustlesse bene they, so weake so wan,

References

• “lustless”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.