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Lustful vs Rakish - What's the difference?

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Lustful is a related term of rakish.


As adjectives the difference between lustful and rakish

is that lustful is full of lust; driven by lust while rakish is dashingly, carelessly, or sportingly unconventional or stylish; jaunty; characterized by a devil-may-care unconventionality; having a somewhat disreputable quality or appearance.

lustful

English

Alternative forms

* lustfull (archaic)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Full of lust; driven by lust.

    • Derived terms

    * lustfully * lustfulness

    rakish

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • dashingly, carelessly, or sportingly unconventional or stylish; jaunty; characterized by a devil-may-care unconventionality; having a somewhat disreputable quality or appearance.
    • ... the rakish Dennis Quaid, a Houston native who is moving to Texas in a couple of years and wants it to become "the new Hollywood." (Houston Chronicle, 6/8/2007)
  • (dated) like a rake; dissolute; profligate
  • * Macaulay
    • The arduous task of converting a rakish lover.

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