lusted after

Craved with passion

Lusted after describes something or someone intensely desired, often with sexual connotation but not exclusively.

A person may be lusted after by admirers: She was lusted after by half the men in town.

The phrase also applies to coveted objects or positions: the most lusted-after handbag of the season, a lusted-after promotion.

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passion · longing · desire · heart's desire · objectified · ardor · attraction · fixation · hunger · temptation · guilty pleasure · covet · allure · craving · forbidden · obsession · eroticism · forbidden fruit

Opposites
desire/attraction

lusted afterloathed

Intensely hated

abhorred · shunned · avoided · detested · despised

emotional intensity

lusted afterignored

Purposely not noticed

overlooked · took no notice of

Family

lust, lusted, lusting, lusts, lustful, lustfully, lustfulness, after

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