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English

Adjective

avid (comparativemore avid or (less common) avider, superlativemost avid or (less common) avidest)

• Enthusiastic; keen; eager; showing great interest in something or desire to do something.
  • ✤ Synonyms: see Thesaurus: enthusiastic
  • ✤ an avid fan of 1960s sci-fi movies
  • ✤ an avid learner of history
  • ✤ I’m an avid reader.
  • ✤ A blanket disdain for indigenous foods doesn’t explain the delay, because Spain was avid to adopt a different New World root.¹
  • ✤ We waited for something to happen, for anything to happen, we were avid for some event to unfold itself out of the burning nothing to save us.²
• greedy

Etymology

From French avide, from Latin avidus (“eager, desirous; greedy”), from aveō (“wish, desire, long for, crave”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈæv.ɪd/, /ˈæv.əd/
• Audio (Southern England): 🔊

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Footnotes

1. 1999, Larry Zuckerman, The Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World: ↩

2. 1996, Janette Turner Hospital, Oyster, Virago Press, page 3: ↩