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Avid vs Pavid - What's the difference?

avid | pavid |

As adjectives the difference between avid and pavid

is that avid is enthusiastic; passionate; longing eagerly; eager; greedy while pavid is fearful, timid.

avid

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • enthusiastic; passionate; longing eagerly; eager; greedy
    • I'm an avid reader.
  • * 1996 , , Oyster , Virago Press, paperback edition, page 3
    • 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 * avidity

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    pavid

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • fearful, timid
  • * 1843 William Harrison Ainsworth - Ainsworth's Magazine
    • Their multitudes might inspire even their pavid nature with courage to attack, and brought to my fancy the fate of that unhappy prisoner who, thrown into a blind dungeon, was in one night literally devoured by rats.

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