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Athirst vs Agog - What's the difference?

athirst | agog | Related terms |

Athirst is a related term of agog.


As adjectives the difference between athirst and agog

is that athirst is (archaic) thirsty while agog is in eager desire, eager, astir.

As an adverb agog is

in a state of high anticipation, excitement, or interest.

athirst

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (archaic) Thirsty.
  • * 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick :
    • Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied with a metaphysical professor. Yes, as every one knows, meditation and water are wedded for ever.
  • * Charlotte Brontë, Shirley
    • To this extenuated spectre, perhaps, a crumb is not thrown once a year, but when ahungered and athirst to famine—when all humanity has forgotten the dying tenant of a decaying house—Divine Mercy remembers the mourner
  • (figuratively) Eager or extremely desirous (for something).

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    agog

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • In eager desire, eager, astir.
  • (chiefly, of eyes) Wide open.
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    • Synonyms

    * all agog, all a-gog

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • In a state of high anticipation, excitement, or interest.