Adjective
avid (comparative more avid or (less commonly) avider, superlative most avid or (less commonly) avidest)
- enthusiastic; keen; eager; showing great interest in something or desire to do something
an avid fan of 1960s sci-fi movies
an avid learner of history
I'm an avid reader.
1999, Larry Zuckerman, The Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World:A blanket disdain for indigenous foods doesn't explain the delay, because Spain was avid to adopt a different New World root.
1996, Janette Turner Hospital, Oyster, Virago Press, 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.
Translations
enthusiastic; passionate
- Arabic: نَهِم m (nahim), مُتَحَمِّس m (mutaḥammis)
- Bulgarian: страстен (bg) (strasten)
- Catalan: àvid
- Czech: nadšený (cs), vášnivý (cs), zanícený, zapálený (cs)
- Dutch: gretig (nl)
- Finnish: innokas (fi), innokas (fi)
- French: avide (fr)
- Galician: ávido
- German: passioniert (de), begeistert (de), eifrig (de), leidenschaftlich (de), enthusiastisch (de)
- Hebrew: נלהב
- Italian: avido (it)
- Latin: avidus (la)
- Polish: zapalony (pl)
- Portuguese: ávido (pt)
- Russian: зая́длый (ru) (zajádlyj), стра́стный (ru) (strástnyj)
- Scottish Gaelic: gionach
- Slovak: nadšený
- Spanish: ávido (es)
- Ukrainian: завзятий (zavzjatyj), палкий (uk) (palkyj)
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longing eagerly; eager; greedy
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Adjective
avid m or n (feminine singular avidă, masculine plural avizi, feminine and neuter plural avide)
- avid, eager, desirous
- greedy, grasping
Declension
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