Eager, earnestly or keenly desirous; also, greedy, covetous.

Possessed with a strong desire; affected with longing.

Desirous, eager (to do something). Obsolete.

Of a person: full of keen desire or appetite; impatiently longing to do or obtain something. With infinitive expressing the desired action. Keen…

In wider sense: Eager, keen; †eagerly active, zealous (obsolete); eagerly or keenly desirous of or †to do (something).

Of persons: Eager, ardent, fervid; full of, or manifesting, intense desire, interest, excitement, etc. Also, of desire, feeling, etc.: Intense.

Earnest in feeling or desire; eager, ardent. Obsolete.

gen. and figurative. Having a keen relish or desire for something pleasant. Const. of; also, eager to do something.

Longing, eagerly desirous. Const. after, of.

Earnest, ardent, eager. Obsolete.

That gasps (in various senses of the verb); characterized by or accompanied by gasping. Also figurative.

Of a person, group, etc.: fervently or passionately devoted to a cause, belief, undertaking, etc… With infinitive or clause indicating a desired…

= avid, adj.

= avid, adj.

Earnest, zealous. Obsolete. rare.

Having a strong desire for something, to do something, or that something should happen; keen, eager, greatly concerned.

gen. and figurative. Eagerly desirous, longing, greedy; = lickerous, adj. 2b.

Anxious, eager, desirous. With in (governing nouns of action).

Eagerly desiring; frisky; rampant. Cf. mantle, v. 7. Obsolete.

Ambitious.

Eagerly desirous to do something.

Ardently desirous, extremely eager, greedy. Const. of, for, rarely infinitive.

In a gasping condition. Also as predicative adj.: gasping, eager.

Of a person: eager, desirous. Obsolete.

Full of or expressing yearning, longing, or desire (for or after something).

Greedy; eager, anxious.