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lusting

ADJECTIVE

enterprising

Synonyms

STRONGEST

adventurous ambitious aspiring daring dashing diligent hardworking industrious intrepid

WEAK

active advancing aggressive alert audacious bold busy coming on strong craving driving eager enthusiastic go ahead go-go gumptious hard ball hungry hustling itching keen lively peppy progressive pushing ready self-starting snappy spanking spark plug spirited stirring takeover up-and-coming venturesome vigorous yearning zealous zippy

Antonyms

STRONGEST

cowardly inactive lazy lethargic meek timid unadventurous

WEAK

passive unambitious unenthused unimaginative unresourceful

ADJECTIVE

thirsty

Synonyms

STRONGEST

anxious dehydrated eager greedy hungry impatient inclined keen parched

WEAK

agog appetent ardent arid athirst avid bone-dry breathless burning cottonmouthed craving crazy for droughty dry as dust dying for hankering itching for juiceless longing partial to sapless thirsting waterless wild for yearning

Antonyms

STRONGEST

unconcerned unenthusiastic

WEAK

moist quenched satisfied wet

NOUN

envy

Synonyms

STRONGEST

begrudging bitterness hatred ill will jealousy malice prejudice resentment rivalry

STRONG

backbiting coveting covetousness enviousness grudging malevolence maliciousness malignity opposition spite

WEAK

evil eye green-eyed monster grudgingness invidiousness jaundiced eye resentfulness

Antonyms

STRONGEST

friendliness liking love loving

WEAK

comfort confidence contentedness good will kindness pleasure

Example Sentences

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France plays host to next year's Rugby World Cup, and having twice clinched the age-grade version, Les Bleus are lusting to win the real thing.

From BBC • Feb. 23, 2022

From Elon Musk to Richard Branson, the wealthiest man on Earth follows a long line of exorbitantly wealthy men lusting for space travel.

From Salon • Jun. 7, 2021

He is also a serial abuser of the truth, a hack whose creative pursuits mostly flop, a failed businessman lusting after a buck and a dysfunctional family man.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 16, 2021

I will never stop lusting for a good bite.

From New York Times • Jul. 10, 2020

So, crammed with theories—theories as yet untested by experience—Joe became an iconoclast lusting for change.

From The Nine-Tenths by Oppenheim, James

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