The Collaborative International Dictionary
Thirsty \Thirst"y\, a. [Compar. Thirstier; superl. Thirstiest.] [AS. ?urstig. See Thirst, n.]
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Feeling thirst; having a painful or distressing sensation from want of drink; hence, having an eager desire.
Give me, I pray thee, a little water to drink, for I am thirsty.
--Judges iv. 19. -
Deficient in moisture; dry; parched.
A dry and thirsty land, where no water is.
--Ps. lxiii. 1.When in the sultry glebe I faint, Or on the thirsty mountain pant.
--Addison.
Wiktionary
a. (en-superlative of: thirsty)
WordNet
adj. needing moisture; "thirsty fields under a rainless sky"
feeling a need or desire to drink; "after playing hard the children were thirsty" [ant: hungry]
(usually followed by `for') extremely desirous; "athirst for knowledge"; "hungry for recognition"; "thirsty for informaton" [syn: athirst(p), hungry(p), thirsty(p)]
able to take in large quantities of moisture; "thirsty towels"
[also: thirstiest, thirstier]
See thirsty
Usage examples of "thirstiest".
With this permission Sancho settled himself as comfortably as he could on his beast, and taking out of the alforjas what he had stowed away in them, he jogged along behind his master munching deliberately, and from time to time taking a pull at the bota with a relish that the thirstiest tapster in Malaga might have envied.
Kostia is the thirstiest, turn to him and give this famous bandit a smile.
Toward nightfall, the thirstiest ones were already beginning to forget things.