Avid vs Hungry - What's the difference?
avid | hungry | Synonyms |
enthusiastic; passionate; longing eagerly; eager; greedy
* 1996 , , Oyster , Virago Press, paperback edition, page 3
Affected by hunger; desiring of food; having a physical need for food.
(figuratively) Eager, having an avid desire ('appetite') for something.
* Charles Kingsley
* Shakespeare
Not rich or fertile; poor; barren; starved.
* Shakespeare
Avid is a synonym of hungry.
As adjectives the difference between avid and hungry
is that avid is enthusiastic; passionate; longing eagerly; eager; greedy while hungry is affected by hunger; desiring of food; having a physical need for food.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
*hungry
English
Adjective
(er)- My kids go to bed hungry every night because I haven't got any money .
- The cruel, hungry foam.
- Cassius has a lean and hungry look.
- a hungry soil
- The hungry beach.