Thirsty

Thirst′y

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Adj.

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Thirstier

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Thirstiest

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Thirst

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Noun.

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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.

Addison.

Thirsty

THIRST'Y

,

Adj.

[from thirst.] Feeling a painful sensation of the throat or fauces for want of drink.

Give me a little water, for I am thirsty. Judges 4.

I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink. Matt.25.

1.

Very dry; having no moisture; parched.

The thirsty land shall become springs of water. Is.35.

2.

Having a vehement desire of any thing; as in blood-thirsty. Is.44. 65.

thirsty

English

Adjective

thirsty ‎(comparative thirstier, superlative thirstiest)

Needing to drink.
After all that work I am really thirsty.
Causing thirst; giving one a need to drink.
- 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula:
  I had for dinner, or rather supper, a chicken done up some way with red pepper, which was very good but thirsty.
- 2004, Charlotte Williamson, Vehicle maintenance for women, ISBN 9781740454759:
  Invest in a water bottle: cycling can be thirsty work.
Craving something.

I am thirsty for knowledge.

After the president left office, the nation was thirsty for change.

Synonyms

(needing to drink, craving something): athirst (archaic)
(needing to drink): parched

Related terms

thirst

Derived terms

bloodthirsty

Translations

needing to drink

Albanian: etur (sq)
Arabic: عَطْشَان ‎(ʿaṭšān), ظَامِئ ‎(ẓāmiʾ)
Armenian: ծարավ (hy) ‎(carav)
Aromanian: sitos
Azeri: susuz
Belarusian: які́ хо́ча піць ‎(jakí xóča picʹ)
Bulgarian: жа́ден (bg) ‎(žáden)
Catalan: assedegat (ca)
Chinese:

Cantonese: 口渴 ‎(hau² hot³), 頸渴, 颈渴 ‎(geng² hot³)

Hakka: 嘴渴 ‎(choi-hot), 肚渴 ‎(tú-hot)

Mandarin: 渴 (zh) ‎(kě), 口渴 (zh) ‎(kǒukě)

Min Nan: 喙焦 (zh-min-nan) ‎(chhùi-ta)
Czech: žíznivý (cs) m
Danish: tørstig (da)
Dutch: dorstig (nl)
Esperanto: soifi
French: assoiffé (fr)
Georgian: მწყურვალი ‎(mc̣q̇urvali), მოწყურებული ‎(moc̣q̇urebuli)
German: durstig (de)
Greek: διψασμένος (el) ‎(dipsasménos)
Hebrew: צָמֵא (he) ‎(tsame)
Hindi: प्यासा (hi) ‎(pyāsā)
Hungarian: szomjas (hu)
Icelandic: þyrstur (is)
Ido: durstoza (io)
Indonesian: haus (id)
Irish: indicated by phrase using the noun tart (ga) m "thirst"
Italian: assetato (it)
Japanese: 喉が渇いた ‎(のどがかわいた, nodo ga kawaita)
Kazakh: сусаған ‎(swsağan), шөлдеген (kk) ‎(şöldegen)
Khmer: ស្រេកទឹក ‎(sreɛk tɨk)
Korean: 목마른 (ko) ‎(mongmareun), 갈증난 ‎(galjeungnan)
Lao: ຫິວນ້ຳ ‎(hiu nam)
Latin: sitiens, siccus
Latvian: izslāpis
Lithuanian: ištroškęs

Luxembourgish: duuschtereg
Macedonian: жеден ‎(žeden)
Malay: dahaga, haus
Mongolian: ангасан ‎(angasan)
Nahuatl: āmiqui
Norwegian: tørst (no)
Old Norse: þyrstr
Persian: تشنه (fa) ‎(tešne)
Polish: spragniony (pl) m
Portuguese: sequioso (pt), sedento (pt), com (pt) sede (pt)
Quechua: yarqa
Romanian: setos (ro), însetat (ro)
Russian: жа́ждущий (ru) ‎(žážduščij), томи́мый жа́ждой ‎(tomímyj žáždoj), (verb) хоте́ть пить impf ‎(xotétʹ pitʹ)
Sardinian:

Campidanese: sídiu

Logudorese: sídiu
Gallurese: sititu
Sassarese: settiu
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: жедан

Roman: žedan (sh)
Slovak: smädný
Slovene: žejen (sl)
Spanish: sediento (es)
Swedish: törstig (sv), törstande (sv) (rare)
Tagalog: uhaw
Tajik: ташна ‎(tašna)
Tamil:
Thai: กระหาย (th) ‎(gràhăai)
Turkish: susuz (tr)
Turkmen: teşne, suwsan
Ukrainian: спра́глий ‎(spráhlyj)
Urdu: پیاسا ‎(pyāsā)
Uzbek: chanqagan (uz), tashna (uz)
Vietnamese: khát (vi)
Welsh: sychedig (cy)
Yiddish: דאָרשטיק ‎(dorshtik)

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