thirsty
eagerly desirous; eager: thirsty for news.
causing thirst: Digging is thirsty work.
Slang.
eager for attention or approval: thirsty celebrities.
desperate for affection, sex, or sexual attention.
Origin of thirsty
1Other words from thirsty
- thirst·i·ly, adverb
- thirst·i·ness, noun
- non·thirst·y, adjective
- un·thirst·y, adjective
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How to use thirsty in a sentence
The contention that we are cultivating the innate blood-thirstiness of our public, I regard as absurd.
A Librarian's Open Shelf | Arthur E. BostwickIn Kondal we train our youth in courage, valor, and high honor—in Mardonale they train them in savage blood-thirstiness alone.
The Skylark of Space | Edward Elmer Smith and Lee Hawkins GarbyBut all this did not yet suffice to appease the blood-thirstiness of the king, and his friends and counsellors, and his priests.
Henry VIII And His Court | Louise MuhlbachLet slaveholders say what they will about our blood-thirstiness, there is not one of them who fears to put himself in our power.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus | American Anti-Slavery SocietyThe French seem only to be possessed by a mad thirst for glory, and manifest a blood-thirstiness which is perfectly appalling.
Music-Study in Germany | Amy Fay
British Dictionary definitions for thirsty
/ (ˈθɜːstɪ) /
feeling a desire to drink
dry; arid: the thirsty soil
(foll by for) feeling an eager desire: thirsty for information
causing thirst: thirsty work
Derived forms of thirsty
- thirstily, adverb
- thirstiness, noun
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