thirsty

thirsty
    adj 1: needing moisture; "thirsty fields under a rainless sky"
    2: feeling a need or desire to drink; "after playing hard the
       children were thirsty" [ant: {hungry}]
    3: (usually followed by `for') extremely desirous; "athirst for
       knowledge"; "hungry for recognition"; "thirsty for
       informaton" [syn: {athirst(p)}, {hungry(p)}, {thirsty(p)}]
    4: able to take in large quantities of moisture; "thirsty
       towels"
    

Thirsty \Thirst"y\, a. [Compar. {Thirstier}; superl.
   {Thirstiest}.] [AS. ?urstig. See {Thirst}, n.]
   1. Feeling thirst; having a painful or distressing sensation
      from want of drink; hence, having an eager desire.
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            Give me, I pray thee, a little water to drink, for I
            am thirsty.                           --Judges iv.
                                                  19.
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   2. Deficient in moisture; dry; parched.
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            A dry and thirsty land, where no water is. --Ps.
                                                  lxiii. 1.
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            When in the sultry glebe I faint,
            Or on the thirsty mountain pant.      --Addison.
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66 Moby Thesaurus words for "thirsty":
      Saharan, absorbent, adsorbent, agog, anhydrous, anxious, ardent,
      arid, assimilative, athirst, avaricious, avid, bibulous, blotting,
      bone-dry, breathless, burning, chemisorptive, chemosorptive,
      consumed with desire, coveting, craving, dehydrated, desert,
      desirous, devoured by desire, digestive, droughty, dry,
      dry as dust, dusty, eager, endosmotic, exosmotic, fervid, greedy,
      hankering, high and dry, hungering, hungry, imbibitory, impatient,
      itching, juiceless, keen, like parchment, mad with lust,
      moistureless, osmotic, parched, prurient, ravenous, resorbent,
      sandy, sapless, sere, soaking, sorbent, spongeous, spongy,
      thirsting, undamped, unwatered, voracious, waterless, yearning