Meaning of AVID
| Pronunciation: | | 'avid
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- [adj] marked by active interest and enthusiasm; "an avid sports fan"; "a great walker"; "an eager beaver"
- [adj] (often followed by `for') ardently or excessively desirous; "avid for adventure"; "an avid ambition to succeed"; "fierce devouring affection"; "the esurient eyes of an avid curiosity"; "greedy for fame"
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| | Synonyms: | | desirous, devouring(a), eager, enthusiastic, esurient, great, greedy, zealous |
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| | Definition: | | \Av"id\, a. [L. avidus, fr. av?re to long: cf. F. avide.
See {Avarice}.]
Longing eagerly for; eager; greedy. ``Avid of gold, yet
greedier of renown.'' --Southey.
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| | Related Terms: | | a hog for, acquisitive, agog, alacritous, all agog, all-devouring, animated, anxious, ardent, athirst, avaricious, bottomless, breathless, bursting to, coveting, covetous, craving, desirous, devouring, eager, esurient, forward, full of life, gluttonous, gobbling, grabby, grasping, greedy, hoggish, impatient, importunate, insatiable, insatiate, insistent, keen, limitless, lively, mercenary, miserly, money-hungry, money-mad, omnivorous, overgreedy, panting, piggish, pressing, prompt, quenchless, quick, rapacious, raring to, ravening, ravenous, ready, ready and willing, slakeless, sordid, spirited, swinish, thirsty, unappeasable, unappeased, unquenchable, unsated, unsatisfied, unslakeable, unslaked, urgent, venal, vital, vivacious, vivid, voracious, wanting, wishful, zestful |
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