thirsty
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English thirsty, from Old English þurstiġ, from Proto-West Germanic *þurstug. Equivalent to thirst + -y. Cognate with Dutch dorstig, German durstig.
Base: thirst
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: thirstier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: thirstiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: thursty
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: thirsties
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: thursty
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Needing to drink water or any liquid that can supply water.
pos: adj
examples: After all that work in the hot sun, I am really thirsty.
Diggle Station lies high up in the Pennine Chain, subject to extreme low temperatures. With this and heavy snowfall in the winter months, Diggle bids fair to compete with the Scottish lines under similar weather conditions, and the provision of unfrozen water in the higher ambient temperature of the tunnel must be a boon to harassed engine drivers whose thirsty steeds run short of water up the gruelling 1 in 125 seven-mile climb from Stalybridge.
Then Egil said, ‘That happens if you eat dulse, it makes you even thirstier.’
gloss: Craving alcohol; especially, experiencing some alcohol withdrawal.
pos: adj
tags: euphemistic
examples: After all that work on a stupidly maintained spreadsheet, I am really thirsty.
Q: What's with John today? He seems off his game. A: He's pretty thirsty, I think.
gloss: Causing thirst; giving one a need to drink.
pos: adj
tags: informal
uncommon
examples: Marching is thirsty work.
I had for dinner, or rather supper, a chicken done up some way with red pepper, which was very good but thirsty.
Invest in a water bottle: cycling can be thirsty work.
gloss: Craving something immaterial.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: thirsty for knowledge
thirsty for attention
After the president left office, the nation was thirsty for change.
gloss: Craving something immaterial.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
slang
examples: This is the third time that girl brought up her crush. She must really be thirsty for him.
The relentless thrill of “Do You Want to Come Over?” is not the only time Britney Spears’s new album Glory makes you feel like you’re being hit on via thirsty text message.
Nin was reviled throughout her life and afterward for writing candidly about her desires — something few women are allowed to do without being branded an open wound — and was only recently divested of her status as one of the thirstiest women of the 20th century.
gloss: One who is thirsty (for a drink, sex, alcohol, etc.).
pos: noun
tags: countable
plural-normally
uncountable
examples: The most interesting thing to the "chicken fanciers"—and the thirsty also—was an ice cream parlor in Morrison. Before we left […] the town ran short on all brands of beer (near, Root, etc.), and the thirsties of the crowd were reduced to the tamer pastime of eating oranges and cracking peanuts.
A thirsty looking for a draught of water finds a welcome sea of water.
Another way to limit the use of thirsty plants […] Here small beds of flowers, azaleas, and other "thirsties" could be grown satisfactorily.
You are like a stream of water to a thirsty in a desert.
Young Duchess watched the two accomplices, she seemed a thirsty who tastes clear and fresh water after having longed for it: for a moment she preserves an expression that expresses disbelief, as if she had discovered a completely new .
gloss: Thirst.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: There is a thirsty that is not for the belly. There is a thirsty for land that belong to we."
The captain would have to spend all his fortune trying to quench the Dark tenant's thirsty. A thirsty that has spanned thousands of years and never been quenched. Provide for his lusts!
Afterwards Marguerite declared herself super-hungry, and also thirsty. 'Not super-thirsty, Regular thirsty. Let's say a thirsty that has worked out, learned martial arts and designed its own bat-suit. But definitely super-hunggry.
Synonyms: adry
athirst
drouthy
droughty
dry
parched
thirstful
thirsty
unslaked
Antonyms: nonthirsty
unthirsty
sated
satiated
slaked
Related words: thirst
thirst trap
hungry
I'm thirsty
spit cotton
spit feathers
craving
drunk
Derived words: bloodthirsty
cumthirsty
I'm thirsty
nonthirsty
thirstily
thirstiness
thirsty work
thungry
unthirsty
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