# lush

> English word · Adjective · IPA /lʌʃ/ · frequency rank #13,951

## Definitions
1. Juicy, succulent.
2. Mellow; soft; (of ground or soil) easily turned; fertile.
3. Dense, teeming with life; luxuriant.
4. Savoury, delicious.
5. Thriving; rife; sumptuous.
6. Beautiful, sexy.
7. Amazing, cool, fantastic, wicked.
8. Lax; slack; limp; flexible.

## Etymology
From Middle English lusch (“slack, relaxed, limp, loose”), from Old English *lysċ, lesċ (“slack; limp”), from Proto-West Germanic *laskw, from Proto-Germanic *laskwaz (“weak, false, feeble”), from Proto-Indo-European *lēy- (“to let; leave behind”).
Akin to Old English lysu, lesu (“false, evil, base”), Middle Low German lasch (“slack”), Middle High German er-leswen (“to become weak”), Old Norse lǫskr (“weak, feeble”), Gothic 𐌻𐌰𐍃𐌹𐍅𐍃 (lasiws, “weak, feeble”), Middle Low German las, lasich (“slack, languid, idle”), Low German lusch (“loose”). Doublet of lusk. More at lishey, lazy.

## Easily confused with
- **lux** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lush-vs-lux)
- **luv** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lush-vs-luv)
- **luz** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lush-vs-luz)
- **lust** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lush-vs-lust)
- **luxe** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lush-vs-luxe)
- **lutz** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lush-vs-lutz)
- **lute** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lush-vs-lute)
- **lusty** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lush-vs-lusty)
- **Ls** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ls-vs-lush)
- **lu** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lu-vs-lush)
- **los** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/los-vs-lush)
- **las** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/las-vs-lush)
- **les** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/les-vs-lush)
- **lbs** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lbs-vs-lush)
- **LSU** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lsu-vs-lush)
- **LSD** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lsd-vs-lush)
- **LDS** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lds-vs-lush)
- **lis** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lis-vs-lush)
- **lug** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lug-vs-lush)
- **Lui** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lui-vs-lush)

## Common misspellings (6)
`llush`, `lsuh`, `luhs`, `lushh`, `lussh`, `ulsh`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/lush