What does athirst mean?

Definitions for athirst
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Princeton's WordNet

  1. athirst(p), hungry(p), thirsty(p)adjective

    (usually followed by `for') extremely desirous

    "athirst for knowledge"; "hungry for recognition"; "thirsty for informaton"

Wiktionary

  1. athirstadjective

    Thirsty.

  2. athirstadjective

    Eager or extremely desirous (for something).

  3. Etymology: ofþyrst.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Athirstadverb

    Thirsty; in want of drink.

    Etymology: from a and thirst.

    With scanty measure then supply their food;
    And, when athirst, restrain ’em from the flood. Dryden.

ChatGPT

  1. athirst

    Athirst is an adjective used in literary contexts, meaning to be thirsty or to have a strong desire or craving for something.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Athirstadjective

    wanting drink; thirsty

  2. Athirstadjective

    having a keen appetite or desire; eager; longing

  3. Etymology: [OE. ofthurst, AS. ofpyrsted, p. p. of ofpyrstan; pref. of-, intensive + pyrstan to thirst. See Thirst.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Athirst

    a-thėrst′, adj. thirsty: eager for. [A.S. of thyrst. See Thirst.]

Anagrams for athirst »

  1. ratshit

  2. rattish

  3. tartish

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of athirst in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of athirst in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of athirst in a Sentence

  1. George Eliot:

    Comprehensive talkers are apt to be tiresome when we are not athirst for information; but, to be quite fair, we must admit that superior reticence is a good deal due to lack of matter. Speech is often barren, but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled nest-egg; and, when it takes to cackling, will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.

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