THIRSTY DEFINITIONS - 11 definitions found
thirsty adj 1: needing moisture; "thirsty fields under a rainless sky" 2: feeling a need or desire to drink; "after playing hard the children were thirsty" [ant: hungry] 3: (usually followed by `for') extremely desirous; "athirst for knowledge"; "hungry for recognition"; "thirsty for informaton" [syn: athirst(p), hungry(p), thirsty(p)] 4: able to take in large quantities of moisture; "thirsty towels" Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) thirsty adjective (thirstier; -est) Date: before 12th century 1. a. feeling thirst b. deficient in moisture ; parched <thirsty land> c. highly absorbent <thirsty towels> 2. having a strong desire ; avid <thirsty for knowledge> • thirstiness noun Oxford English Reference Dictionary
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary thirsty (thirstier, thirstiest) 1. If you are thirsty, you feel a need to drink something. Drink whenever you feel thirsty during exercise. ADJ: usu v-link ADJ • thirstily The child nodded, drinking her milk thirstily. ADV: ADV after v 2. If you are thirsty for something, you have a strong desire for it. (LITERARY) People should understand how thirsty for revenge they are. = hungry ADJ: v-link ADJ for n English Explanatory Dictionary thirsty ˈθə:stɪ adj. (thirstier, thirstiest) 1 feeling thirst. 2 (of land, a season, etc.) dry or parched. 3 (often foll. by for or after) eager. 4 colloq. causing thirst (thirsty work). øøthirstily adv. thirstiness n. [OE thurstig, thyrstig (as THIRST, -Y(1))] English-Old English dictionary thirsty Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Thirsty \Thirst"y\, a. [Compar. Thirstier; superl. Thirstiest.] [AS. [thorn]urstig. See Thirst, n.] 1. Feeling thirst; having a painful or distressing sensation from want of drink; hence, having an eager desire. Give me, I pray thee, a little water to drink, for I am thirsty. --Judges iv. 19. 2. Deficient in moisture; dry; parched. A dry and thirsty land, where no water is. --Ps. lxiii. 1. When in the sultry glebe I faint, Or on the thirsty mountain pant. --Addison. Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms thirsty a. 1. Suffering from thirst. 2. Dry, parched, arid, without moisture. 3. Longing, craving, greedy, eager. English Explanatory Dictionary (Synonyms) thirsty ˈθə:stɪ adj. 1 parched, dry, dehydrated; arid: I need another drink - I'm really thirsty. The thirsty land welcomes the rain. 2 desirous, hungry, avid, eager, ravenous, voracious, burning, greedy, avaricious, hankering, yearning, craving, Colloq itching: The students are thirsty for knowledge and very hard-working. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 66 Moby Thesaurus words for "thirsty": Saharan, absorbent, adsorbent, agog, anhydrous, anxious, ardent, arid, assimilative, athirst, avaricious, avid, bibulous, blotting, bone-dry, breathless, burning, chemisorptive, chemosorptive, consumed with desire, coveting, craving, dehydrated, desert, desirous, devoured by desire, digestive, droughty, dry, dry as dust, dusty, eager, endosmotic, exosmotic, fervid, greedy, hankering, high and dry, hungering, hungry, imbibitory, impatient, itching, juiceless, keen, like parchment, mad with lust, moistureless, osmotic, parched, prurient, ravenous, resorbent, sandy, sapless, sere, soaking, sorbent, spongeous, spongy, thirsting, undamped, unwatered, voracious, waterless, yearning |
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