What does athirst mean in English? Meaning of athirst definition and abbreviation with examples.
Meaning of "athirst": (usually followed by `for') extremely desirous
Adjective
Meaning: (usually followed by `for') extremely desirousExample: athirst for knowledge
hungry for recognition
thirsty for informatonSynonyms: athirst
hungry
thirstySimilar: desirous
wishfulPronunciation in UK: /əˈθəːst/
Adjective: (archaic) Thirsty. 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick: Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied with a metaphysical professor. Yes, as every one knows, meditation and water are wedded for ever. Charlotte Brontë, Shirley To this extenuated spectre, perhaps, a crumb is not thrown once a year, but when ahungered and athirst to famine—when all humanity has forgotten the dying tenant of a decaying house—Divine Mercy remembers the mourner […]1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick: Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied with a metaphysical professor. Yes, as every one knows, meditation and water are wedded for ever.Charlotte Brontë, Shirley To this extenuated spectre, perhaps, a crumb is not thrown once a year, but when ahungered and athirst to famine—when all humanity has forgotten the dying tenant of a decaying house—Divine Mercy remembers the mourner […](figuratively) Eager or extremely desirous (for something).Synonyms:
agog, anxious, ardent, avid, bursting, desiring, desirous, excited, hungry, impatient, keen, longing, raring, thirsting, thirsty, yearning, champing at the bit, ready and willing, arid, dry, parched, dehydrated, droughty,
