thirsty
AdjectiveUS[thur-stee]/ˈθɝsti/2 syllables
Open English WordNet
Adjective (4)thirstier, thirstiest
- needing moisture“thirsty fields under a rainless sky”Opposite wetSimilar dry
- feeling a need or desire to drink“after playing hard the children were thirsty”Opposite hungry
- (usually followed by ‘for’) extremely desirous“athirst for knowledge”“hungry for recognition”“thirsty for information”Synonyms: athirsthungryOpposite undesiringSimilar desirous, wishful
- able to take in large quantities of moisture“thirsty towels”Opposite nonabsorbentSimilar absorbent, absorptive
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Translations
Adjective needing to drink
- Spanish
- sediento
- French
- avoir soif
- German
- durstig
- Italian
- assetato
- Portuguese
- com sede
- Turkish
- susamış
- Russian
- хочу́ пить xočú pitʹ
- Arabic
- عَطْشَان ʕaṭšān
- Chinese
- 口渴 kǒukě
- Japanese
- 喉が渇いた nodo ga kawaita
33 more languages
- Dutch
- dorstig
- Polish
- spragniony
- Swedish
- törstig
- Greek
- διψασμένος dipsasménos
- Korean
- 목마르다 mongmareuda
- Indonesian
- haus
- Vietnamese
- khát
- Hungarian
- szomjas
- Portuguese (PT)
- sedento
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 口渴 kǒukě
- Albanian
- i etur
- Catalan
- assedegat
- Czech
- žíznivý
- Danish
- tørstig
- Esperanto
- soifanta
- Estonian
- janune
- Finnish
- janoinen
- Georgian
- მწყურვალი mc̣q̇urvali
- Hebrew
- צָמֵא tsamé
- Icelandic
- þyrstur
- Kurdish
- tî
- Latvian
- izslāpis
- Lithuanian
- ištroškęs
- Malagasy
- mangetaheta
- Norwegian
- tørst
- Romanian
- însetat
- Scottish Gaelic
- pàiteach
- Serbo-Croatian
- žedan
- Slovak
- smädný
- Slovenian
- žejen
- Swahili
- mwenye kiu
- Welsh
- sychedig
- Yiddish
- דאָרשטיק dorshtik
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Thirst′y adjective [Compar. Thirstier; superlative Thirstiest.]
Origin: AS. …urstig. See Thirst, noun
1. Feeling thirst; having a painful or distressing sensation from want of drink; hence, having an eager desire.
Give me, I pray thee, a little water to drink, for I am thirsty.— Judges iv. 19.
2. Deficient in moisture; dry; parched.
A dry and thirsty land, where no water is.— Ps. lxiii. 1.
When in the sultry glebe I faint, Or on the thirsty mountain pant.— Joseph Addison
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54