thirstyadjective
uk/ˈθɜː.sti/us/ˈθɝː.sti/thirsty adjective (NEED FOR DRINK)
A2 needing to drink:
I felt/was hot and thirsty after the basketball game.
More examples
- It's a curious paradox that drinking a lot of water can often make you feel thirsty.
- All that exercise has made me thirsty.
- Ask the children if they're thirsty.
- After three hours in the heat, we were extremely thirsty.
- All that singing makes you thirsty.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Hungry & thirsty
- (I'm so hungry), I could eat a horse idiom
- appetite
- be gasping idiom
- eat
- eat like a horse idiom
- empty
- gasp
- hunger
- hungry
- make sb's mouth water idiom
- munchies
- ravenous
- smack
- smack your lips idiom
- starvation
- starved
- starving
- thirst
- unquenchable
- voracious
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thirsty adjective (WISH)
literary Someone who is thirsty for power, knowledge, etc. wants to have it very much.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Curiosity
- curiosity
- curiosity killed the cat idiom
- curious
- inquiring
- inquisitive
- inquisitorial
- meddlesome
- nose
- nosy
- nosy parker
- prurient
- quizzical
- snoot
- stick your nose into sth idiom
- stick your snoot in/into (sth) idiom
thirstily
adverb uk/ˈθɜː.stəl.i/us/ˈθɝː.stəl.i/