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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dry, desirous (especially for liquid) |
| Synonyms: | agog*, anxious, appetent, ardent, arid, athirst, avid, bone-dry, breathless, burning, cottonmouthed, craving, crazy for, dehydrated, droughty, dry as dust, dying for, eager, greedy, hankering, hungry, impatient, inclined, itching for, juiceless, keen, longing, lusting, parched, partial to, sapless, thirsting, waterless, wild for, yearning |
| Antonyms: | moist, quenched, satisfied, wet |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ambitious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | desiring success |
| Synonyms: | aggressive, anxious, ardent, aspiring, avid, ball of fire, bent upon, climbing, come on, come on strong, designing, desirous, determined, driving, eager, eager beaver, earnest, energetic, enterprising, enthusiastic, fireball, get up and go, go-getter, goal-oriented, hard ball, high-reaching, hopeful, hungry, industrious, inspired, intent, longing, power-loving, purposeful, pushing, pushy*, resourceful, self-starting, sharp, soaring, striving, thirsty, vaulting, zealous |
| Antonyms: | content, fulfilled, satisfied, unassuming |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | anxious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | eager |
| Synonyms: | agog, ardent, avid, breathless, desirous, enthusiastic, expectant, fervent, impatient, intent, itching, keen, thirsty, yearning, zealous |
| Antonyms: | dreading, unwilling |
| Main Entry: | ardent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very enthusiastic |
| Synonyms: | agog, avid, blazing, burning, desirous, eager, fervent, fervid, fierce, fiery, horny*, hot*, hungry, impassioned, intense, keen, lovey-dovey, lusty, passionate, spirited, thirsty, vehement, warm, zealous |
| Antonyms: | cold, cold-blooded, cool, dispassionate, frigid, indifferent, lukewarm, unenthusiastic |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | arid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dry |
| Synonyms: | barren, bone-dry, desert, dry as a bone, dry as dust, dusty, moistureless, parched, thirsty, waterless |
| Antonyms: | damp, humid, moist, wet |
| Main Entry: | avid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | enthusiastic |
| Synonyms: | ardent, athirst, avaricious, breathless, covetous, desirous, devoted, dying to, eager, fanatical, fervent, gotta have, grasping, greedy, hungry, impatient, insatiable, intense, keen, passionate, rapacious, ravenous, thirsty, voracious, zealous |
| Antonyms: | dispassionate, indifferent, unenthusiastic |
| Main Entry: | dry |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | moistureless |
| Synonyms: | anhydrous, arid, athirst, baked, bald, bare, barren, dehydrated, depleted, desert, desiccant, desiccated, drained, dried-up, droughty, dusty, evaporated, exhausted, hard, impoverished, juiceless, not irrigated, parched, rainless, sapless, sapped, sear, shriveled, stale, thirsty, torrid, unmoistened, waterless |
| Antonyms: | damp, dripping, humid, juicy, moist, soaked, soggy, watery, wet |
| 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: | 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
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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