thirsty

/ˈθʌrsti/

/ˈθʌsti/

Other forms: thirstier; thirstiest

When you're thirty, you crave liquids. Thirsty people want a drink.

To be thirsty is to feel like you need to drink something. People tend to get more thirsty on very hot days or during exercise, when a lot of their body's fluid is being sweated out. Eating can also make you thirsty, and so can waking up in the morning. The word thirsty comes from the Proto-Indo-European root ters, or "dry."

Definitions of thirsty

1. adjective

   feeling a need or desire to drink
   “after playing hard the children were thirsty”

   antonyms:

   hungry

   feeling hunger; feeling a need or desire to eat food

   empty, empty-bellied

   needing nourishment

   esurient, famished, ravenous, sharp-set, starved

   extremely hungry

   peckish

   somewhat hungry

   supperless

   without supper
2. adjective

   needing moisture
   “thirsty fields under a rainless sky”

   synonyms:

   dry

   free from liquid or moisture; lacking natural or normal moisture or depleted of water; or no longer wet
3. adjective

   (usually followed by `for') extremely desirous
   “thirsty for informaton”

   synonyms: athirst, hungry

   desirous, wishful

   having or expressing desire for something
4. adjective

   able to take in large quantities of moisture
   “thirsty towels”

   synonyms:

   absorbent, absorptive

   having power or capacity or tendency to absorb or soak up something (liquids or energy etc.)