Complete Definition of "avid"

English

Adjective
avid

  1. enthusiastic; passionate; longing eagerly; eager; greedy

#:I'm an avid reader.

Quotations
1996, w:Janette Turner Hospital|Janette Turner Hospital, Oyster, Virago Press, paperback edition, page 3
:We waited for something to happen, for anything to happen, we were avid for some event to unfold itself out of the burning nothing to save us.

Translations
trans-top|enthusiastic; passionate; longing eagerly; eager; greedy
Finnish: innokas
Norwegian: ivrig
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Italian: avido m, avida f
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Derived terms
avidly
avidity

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