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Lustless vs Gustless - What's the difference?

lustless | gustless |

In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between lustless and gustless

is that lustless is (obsolete) lacking vigour; weak; spiritless while gustless is (obsolete) tasteless; insipid.

As adjectives the difference between lustless and gustless

is that lustless is without sexual lust while gustless is (obsolete) tasteless; insipid.

lustless

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Without sexual lust.
  • * 1587 , Christopher Marlowe, Tamburlaine the Great
    • By Mahomet my kinsman's sepulchre, / And by the holy Alcoran I swear, / He shall be made a chaste and lustless eunuch...
  • * 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...
  • (obsolete) Lacking vigour; weak; spiritless.
    • (Webster 1913)

    gustless

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) tasteless; insipid
  • * Sir Thomas Browne
    • they might after give the expressed and less useful part of the cods and remaining pulp unto their swine: which, being no gustless or unsatisfying offal, might be well desired by the prodigal in his hunger.

    Related terms

    * degustation * disgust (Webster 1913)