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lusty adjective [ ˈlʌsti ]

• healthy and strong; full of vigour.
• "the other farmsteads had lusty young sons to work the land"
Similar: healthy, strong, fit, vigorous, robust, hale and hearty, hearty, energetic, vital, lively, bursting with good health, blooming, in good condition, in fine fettle, rugged, sturdy, tough, stalwart, brawny, muscular, muscly, strapping, hefty, husky, burly, solidly built, well built, well made, solid, substantial, powerful, virile, red-blooded, beefy, ripped, shredded, buff, loud, forceful, stentorian, strident,
Opposite: weak, quiet,
Origin: Middle English: from lust (in the early sense ‘vigour’) + -y1.


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