different between unjust vs unlust

English

Etymology

From un- +? just.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?d??st/

• Rhymes: -?st

Adjective

unjust (comparative more unjust, superlative most unjust)

1. Not fair, just or right.

   The solution was very unjust.

Usage notes

• See the notes about injustice.

Synonyms

• unfair

Antonyms

• just

Related terms

• justice
• injustice

Translations

English

Etymology

From Middle English unlust, from Old English unlust (“displeasure, dislike”), from Proto-West Germanic *unlust, from Proto-Germanic *unlustuz (“listlessness”). Equivalent to un- +? lust.

Noun

unlust (countable and uncountable, plural unlusts)

1. (rare) Displeasure; dislike.
   • 1983, Alison Waley, A Half of Two Lives:

     Poetry for me wove its own spell to secure me against all 'unlusts' - all criticisms - even against joylessness: I was set apart; in safety; as secure - in this way - as he. Who was in that audience, I wonder now? That all was success is certain.

2. (obsolete) listlessness; disinclination.

   • He doth all thing with annoye, and with wrawnesse, slaknesse, and excusation, with idlenesse and unlust.

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *unlustuz. Equivalent to un- +? lust. Cognate with Gothic ???????????????????????????????? (unlustus, “apathy, listlessness”) and German Unlust (“lack of desire, aversion”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?un?lust/

Noun

unlust m

1. absence of desire; disgust, disinclination, listlessness
2. want of pleasure; joylessness, weariness
3. evil pleasure, lust

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: unlust
  • English: unlust

Derived terms

• unlustian

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) , “unlust”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.