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| Main Entry: | athirst |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | eager |
| Synonyms: | agog, anxious, ardent, avid, bursting, desiring, desirous, excited, hungry, impatient, keen, longing, raring, thirsting, thirsty, yearning, champing at the bit, ready and willing |
| Main Entry: | athirst |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | thirsty |
| Synonyms: | arid, dry, parched, dehydrated, droughty |
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| Main Entry: | avid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | enthusiastic |
| Synonyms: | ardent, avaricious, breathless, covetous, desirous, devoted, eager, fanatical, fervent, grasping, greedy, hungry, impatient, insatiable, intense, keen, passionate, rapacious, ravenous, thirsty, voracious, zealous, athirst, dying to, gotta have |
| Antonyms: | dispassionate, indifferent, unenthusiastic |
| Main Entry: | eager |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | anxious, enthusiastic |
| Synonyms: | acquisitive, agog, ambitious, antsy, appetent, ardent, athirst, avid, breathless, champing at the bit, covetous, craving, desiring, desirous, dying to, earnest, fervent, fervid, greedy, gung ho*, hankering, heated, hot to trot, hot*, hungry*, impatient, intent, keen, longing, pining, rarin' to go, ready and willing, restive, restless, self-starting, solicitous, thirsty, vehement, voracious, warmblooded, wild, wishful, yearning, zealous |
| Antonyms: | apathetic, disinterested, dispassionate, unconcerned, uneager, unenthusiastic |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | enthusiastic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | interested, excited |
| Synonyms: | agog, animated, anxious, ardent, avid, concerned, crazy about*, devoted, eager, earnest, ebullient, exhilarated, exuberant, fanatical, fascinated, fervent, fervid, forceful, gung ho*, hearty, intent, keen, lively, nutty*, obsessed, passionate, pleased, rabid, red-hot*, rhapsodic, spirited, thrilled, unqualified, vehement, vigorous, wacky*, warm, wholehearted, willing, zealous, athirst, attracted, bugged, dying to, gaga, gone on, keyed up, tantalized, titillated |
| Antonyms: | apathetic, disinterested, doubting, indifferent, lethargic, pessimistic, unenthusiastic, weary, unexcited |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hungry |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | starving; desirous |
| Synonyms: | avid, carnivorous, covetous, craving, eager, empty, famished, greedy, hankering, hollow, keen, omnivorous, rapacious, ravenous, starved, unfilled, unsatisfied, voracious, yearning, athirst, could eat a horse, edacious, esurient, famishing, flying light, got the munchies, hoggish, hungered, insatiate, on empty stomach, piggish |
| Antonyms: | full, replete, satisfied, stuffed, satiated |
| Main Entry: | impatient |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unable, unwilling to wait |
| Synonyms: | abrupt, agog, antsy, anxious, appetent, ardent, athirst, avid, breathless, brusque, chafing, choleric, curt, demanding, dying to, eager, edgy, feverish, fretful, hasty, having short fuse, headlong, hot under collar, hot-tempered, impetuous, indignant, intolerant, irascible, irritable, itchy, keen, on pins and needles, quick-tempered, racing one's motor, restless, ripe*, snappy, straining, sudden, testy, thirsty, unforbearing, unindulgent, vehement, violent |
| Antonyms: | controlled, easy-going, enduring, forbearing, laid-back, patient, tolerant, waiting, willing |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | solicitous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | worried |
| Synonyms: | anxious, apprehensive, ardent, attentive, avid, beside oneself, careful, concerned, devoted, eager, earnest, heedful, impatient, keen, loving, mindful, raring, regardful, tender, thirsty, troubled, uneasy, zealous, appetent, athirst, caring, worried sick, worried stiff |
| Antonyms: | laid-back, unafraid, easy-going, unworried |
| Main Entry: | thirsty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dry, desirous (especially for liquid) |
| Synonyms: | agog*, anxious, ardent, arid, avid, breathless, burning, craving, eager, greedy, hankering, hungry, impatient, inclined, keen, longing, parched, yearning, appetent, athirst, bone-dry, cottonmouthed, crazy for, dehydrated, droughty, dry as dust, dying for, itching for, juiceless, lusting, partial to, sapless, thirsting, waterless, wild for |
| Antonyms: | moist, satisfied, wet, quenched |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dry |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | moistureless |
| Synonyms: | arid, baked, bald, bare, barren, depleted, desert, drained, dusty, exhausted, hard, impoverished, parched, sear, stale, thirsty, torrid, anhydrous, athirst, dehydrated, desiccant, desiccated, dried-up, droughty, evaporated, juiceless, not irrigated, rainless, sapless, sapped, shriveled, unmoistened, waterless |
| Antonyms: | damp, humid, juicy, moist, soaked, soggy, watery, wet, dripping |
| Main Entry: | keen |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | enthusiastic |
| Synonyms: | agog, alert, animate, animated, anxious, ardent, avid, breathless, devoted, eager, earnest, ebullient, fervent, fervid, fierce, gung ho*, impassioned, impatient, intense, intent, interested, lively, spirited, sprightly, thirsty, vehement, vivacious, warm, zealous, appetent, athirst, dying to, fond of, perfervid |
| Antonyms: | reluctant, unenthusiastic, uninterested |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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| Main Entry: | desire |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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Adjectives: |
agog, all agog, ambitious, anadipsic, anxious, appetent, appetizable, appetizing, ardent, aspiring, at a loss for, athirst, avid, belly, bent upon, breathless, bulimic, burning, concubitant, covetous, craving, curious, desirable, desired, desiring, desirous, devoured by desire, drouthy, dry, dying for, eager, enviable, envious, esurient, exacting, exoptable, extortionate, fain, famished, fervent, gair, grasping, greedy, greedy as a hog, hungry, hungry as a churchmouse, hungry as a hawk, hungry as a horse, hungry as a hunter, impatient, in demand, inclined, ingordigious, insatiable, intent on, intent upon, keen, lickerish, mad after, meatwhole, open, orectic, overeager, parched with thirst, partial to, peckish, phagomanic, pinched with hunger, pleasing, quenchless, rabid, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, ravenous as a wolf, salacious, sarcophilous, sedulous, set on, set upon, sharp, sitient, sky, sordid, tantalizing, thirsty, tibialoconcupiscent, unquenchable, unsated, unsatisfied, unslaked, vaulting, venerean, voracious, wishful, wistful, with an empty stomach, yiver
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