figurative. Having or characterized by a vehement desire or craving; eager, greedy.

figurative. Affected with a longing or yearning. Cf. athirst, adj. 2.

transferred and figurative. Having or characterized by a strong desire or craving (for, †after, †of… of persons, their attributes, etc.

figurative. Eager, earnestly desirous, longing (for).

Having an insatiable thirst, like a dropsical person; hence figurative. Obsolete.

figurative and in figurative context. In predicative use: having a strong desire or craving (for something).

transferred. Keen, eager; having desire fixed upon, craving after.

= hydropic, adj. 2.

Hungry: in early use chiefly figurative. Now humorously pedantic in lit. sense, or (with reminiscence of Juvenal's Græculus esuriens) in the…

Urgently desiring, longing, hungering.

Full of thirst; thirsty.