Thesaurus / avid
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WINE BOTTLE HOLDERS AND RACKS THAT MAKE SOPHISTICATED GIFTSPOPSCI COMMERCE TEAMSEPTEMBER 29, 2020POPULAR-SCIENCEGellert, 48, is an avid climber and backcountry snowboarder who has ridden all over the world.
PATAGONIA JUST ANNOUNCED A NEW CEOCHRISTOPHER SOLOMONSEPTEMBER 23, 2020OUTSIDE ONLINEPreviously, Johnson, an avid rock climber, had been vice president of technical outdoor for the company, leading groups that built products for everything from trail running to snowboarding.
PATAGONIA JUST ANNOUNCED A NEW CEOCHRISTOPHER SOLOMONSEPTEMBER 23, 2020OUTSIDE ONLINEPolitical scientist Salma Mousa of Stanford University, an avid soccer fan who grew up in the Middle East, wondered if the popular sport could bring those communities together.
INTERFAITH SOCCER TEAMS EASED MUSLIM-CHRISTIAN TENSIONS — TO A POINTSUJATA GUPTAAUGUST 13, 2020SCIENCE NEWSThe Sunday in late April that the avid runner became ill started like any other and included a seven-mile run.
WHY COVID-19 IS BOTH STARTLINGLY UNIQUE AND PAINFULLY FAMILIARAIMEE CUNNINGHAMJULY 2, 2020SCIENCE NEWSThe shout of approval showed how avid they were for some direct expression of their accumulated resentment.
MOUNTAINCLEMENT WOODThe uneventful lives they led year after year made men and women alike avid for anything of the nature of news or incident.
IN CONNECTION WITH THE DE WILLOUGHBY CLAIMFRANCES HODGSON BURNETTThe funny thing is that Wagner never renounced anything: to the end he was greedy, avid of life.
RICHARD WAGNERJOHN F. RUNCIMANWhat a break-off, leaving the gasping reader in a state of choking suspense, of avid, ungratified curiosity!
PTOMAINE STREETCAROLYN WELLSThere was a meagre, passionless dulness about the aspect, though at times it quickened into a kind of avid acuteness.
LUCRETIA, COMPLETEEDWARD BULWER-LYTTONWORDS RELATED TO AVID
- acquisitive
- agog
- ambitious
- antsy
- appetent
- ardent
- athirst
- avid
- breathless
- champing at the bit
- covetous
- craving
- desiring
- desirous
- dying to
- earnest
- fervent
- fervid
- greedy
- gung-ho
- hankering
- heated
- hot
- hot to trot
- hungry
- impatient
- intent
- keen
- longing
- pining
- rarin' to go
- ready and willing
- restive
- restless
- self-starting
- solicitous
- thirsty
- vehement
- voracious
- warmblooded
- wild
- wishful
- yearning
- zealous
- agog
- animated
- anxious
- ardent
- athirst
- attracted
- avid
- bugged
- concerned
- crazy about
- devoted
- dying to
- eager
- earnest
- ebullient
- exhilarated
- exuberant
- fanatical
- fascinated
- fervent
- fervid
- forceful
- gaga
- gone on
- gung-ho
- hearty
- hog-wild
- intent
- keen
- keyed-up
- lively
- nutty
- obsessed
- passionate
- pleased
- rabid
- red-hot
- rhapsodic
- spirited
- tantalized
- thrilled
- titillated
- unqualified
- vehement
- vigorous
- wacky
- warm
- wholehearted
- willing
- zealous
- acquisitive
- avaricious
- avid
- carnivorous
- close
- close-fisted
- covetous
- craving
- desirous
- devouring
- eager
- edacious
- esurient
- gluttonous
- gobbling
- gormandizing
- grabby
- grasping
- grudging
- gulping
- guzzling
- hoggish
- hungry
- impatient
- insatiable
- insatiate
- intemperate
- itchy
- miserly
- omnivorous
- parsimonious
- penny-pinching
- penurious
- piggish
- prehensile
- rapacious
- ravening
- ravenous
- selfish
- stingy
- swinish
- tight
- tight-fisted
- voracious
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