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THIRSTY
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Irregular inflected forms: thirstier , thirstiest
I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Able to take in large quantities of moisture
Example:
thirsty towels
Classified under:
Similar:
absorbent; absorptive (having power or capacity or tendency to absorb or soak up something (liquids or energy etc.))
Sense 2
Meaning:
(usually followed by 'for') extremely desirous
Example:
thirsty for information
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
desirous; wishful (having or expressing desire for something)
Derivation:
thirst; thirstiness (strong desire for something (not food or drink))
Sense 3
Meaning:
Feeling a need or desire to drink
Example:
after playing hard the children were thirsty
Classified under:
Adjectives
Antonym:
hungry (feeling hunger; feeling a need or desire to eat food)
Derivation:
thirst; thirstiness (a physiological need to drink)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Needing moisture
Example:
thirsty fields under a rainless sky
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
dry (free from liquid or moisture; lacking natural or normal moisture or depleted of water; or no longer wet)
Derivation:
thirstiness (a deficiency of moisture (especially when resulting from a permanent absence of rainfall))
Context examples:
My money was all gone, I had nothing left to dispose of; I was hungry, thirsty, and worn out; and seemed as distant from my end as if I had remained in London.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
He come with us, and ask many men who are rough and hot; these be better fellows too when they have been no more thirsty.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Researchers have long believed that the way the level of salt inside our bodies is controlled is fairly straightforward: when levels are too high, our brains are stimulated to make us thirsty.
(How the body regulates salt levels, NIH)
The symptoms can include: • Being very thirsty • Urinating often • Feeling very hungry or tired • Losing weight without trying • Having sores that heal slowly • Having blurry eyesight
(Diabetes Type 2, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)
And near to him he heard the scuffle of a mighty Slavonian hunter, loath to die, and, half uprisen, borne back and down by the thirsty spears.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
It was a long and melancholy vigil, and yet brought with it something of the thrill which the hunter feels when he lies beside the water-pool, and waits for the coming of the thirsty beast of prey.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Hugo, getting thirsty after a long warble, drinks it, loses his wits, and after a good deal of clutching and stamping, falls flat and dies, while Hagar informs him what she has done in a song of exquisite power and melody.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Symptoms may include: • Being very thirsty • Urinating often • Feeling very hungry or tired • Losing weight without trying • Having sores that heal slowly • Having dry, itchy skin • Losing the feeling in your feet or having tingling in your feet • Having blurry eyesight
(Diabetes Type 1, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)
He learned to bite the ice out with his teeth when it collected between his toes; and when he was thirsty and there was a thick scum of ice over the water hole, he would break it by rearing and striking it with stiff fore legs.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
We've all heard it: eating salty foods makes you thirstier.
(Salty Diet Makes You Hungry, Not Thirsty, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
