Avid vs Esurient - What's the difference?
avid | esurient |
enthusiastic; passionate; longing eagerly; eager; greedy
* 1996 , , Oyster , Virago Press, paperback edition, page 3
Very hungry or greedy; ravenous.
* Carlyle
*1983 , (Alasdair Gray), ‘Logopandocy’, Canongate 2012 (Every Short Story 1951-2012 ), p. 177:
*:I answered that such freedom would be worse than the vilest slavery, for it would leave me free to do nothing but grappel till death with clusterfist creditors and esurient Kirkists […].
avid
As adjectives the difference between avid and esurient
is that avid is enthusiastic; passionate; longing eagerly; eager; greedy while esurient is very hungry or greedy; ravenous.As a noun esurient is
one who is hungry or greedy.avid
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- I'm an avid reader.
- We waited for something to happen, for anything to happen, we were avid for some event to unfold itself out of the burning nothing to save us.
Derived terms
* avidly * avidityAnagrams
*esurient
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- (Bailey)
- Poor, but esurient .