avid
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 8
- Words With Friends
- 9
- Letters
- 4
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Definition of avid
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
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Enthusiastic; keen; eager; showing great interest in something or desire to do something.
“an avid fan of 1960s sci-fi movies”
“an avid learner of history”
“I'm an avid reader.”
“A blanket disdain for indigenous foods doesn't explain the delay, because Spain was avid to adopt a different New World root.”
“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.”
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adj
-
Enthusiastic; keen; eager; showing great interest in something or desire to do something.
“an avid fan of 1960s sci-fi movies”
“an avid learner of history”
“I'm an avid reader.”
“A blanket disdain for indigenous foods doesn't explain the delay, because Spain was avid to adopt a different New World root.”
“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.”
- greedy
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew- Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew-eh₁yeti Latin aveō Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin avidusbor. French avide English avid From French avide, from Latin avidus (“eager, desirous; greedy”), from aveō (“wish, desire, long for, crave”).
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