athirst

American  

[uh-thurst] / əˈθɜrst /

adjective

1. having a keen desire; eager (often followed byfor ).

   She has long been athirst for European travel.

2. Archaic. thirsty.

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athirst British  

/ əˈθɜːst /

adjective

1. (often foll by for) having an eager desire; longing

2. archaic thirsty

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Etymology

Origin of athirst

before 1000; Middle English athurst, ofthurst, Old English ofthyrst, past participle of ofthyrstan. See a- ², thirst

Example Sentences

Why not bring the art of the cinema to bars, restaurants, lunch wagons, station waiting-rooms, drugstores, wherever idle people congregate with time on their hands and minds athirst for esthetic experience?

From Time Magazine Archive

In Detroit, five-year-old Donald Prieur, athirst for knowledge, set out for school for the first time, paused en route to take up the study of a barrel, was eventually sawed out of it.

From Time Magazine Archive

The novelist is said to have confessed that he finds the pugilist almost without a sense of humor, but interestingly athirst and groping.

From Time Magazine Archive

And thrice to Enna cam'st thou, thrice, they tell, Satest athirst by Callichorus' well, Nor tookest of the spring to comfort thee.

From The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges by Bridges, Robert

To him they were just two throats athirst; nothing more.

From Unicorns by Huneker, James