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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
thirsty
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Are you thirsty? Do you want some juice?
▪ Are you thirsty?
▪ By the time you actually feel thirsty, your body is already slightly dehydrated.
▪ I'll have a beer. Gardening is thirsty work, you know.
▪ On a hot day, your dog can become very thirsty, so make sure they have plenty of water.
▪ Stands were set up to satisfy the thousands of thirsty people expected at the event.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He was thirsty and hungry and in pain.
▪ His eyes clung to her like thirsty leeches, watching for any movement, the revolver trained on her back.
▪ I drank two of their barrels of wine, and was still thirsty, because that was only half a litre.
▪ The fact that they were hungry and thirsty stretched nerves even tighter.
▪ We always got thirsty and usually were hungry.
▪ We were soiled with urine, hungry, thirsty, cold and sick with exhaustion.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Thirsty

Thirsty \Thirst"y\, a. [Compar. Thirstier; superl. Thirstiest.] [AS. ?urstig. See Thirst, n.]

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
thirsty

Old English þurstig "thirsty, greedy;" see thirst (n.) + -y (2). Related: Thirstily; thirstiness. Similar formation in Old Frisian, Dutch dorstig, German durstig.

Wiktionary
thirsty

a. 1 need to drink. 2 Causing thirst; giving one a need to drink. 3 crave something.

WordNet
thirsty
  1. adj. needing moisture; "thirsty fields under a rainless sky"

  2. feeling a need or desire to drink; "after playing hard the children were thirsty" [ant: hungry]

  3. (usually followed by `for') extremely desirous; "athirst for knowledge"; "hungry for recognition"; "thirsty for informaton" [syn: athirst(p), hungry(p), thirsty(p)]

  4. able to take in large quantities of moisture; "thirsty towels"

  5. [also: thirstiest, thirstier]

Wikipedia
Thirsty (novel)

Thirsty ( 1997) is a horror novel written by M. T. Anderson. It is set in modern Clayton, Massachusetts. The main character, Christopher, just wants a normal life; to date his crush Rebecca Schwartz, stay up late, and other teenager things. Unfortunately, Chris has much more to worry about than puberty — he also has to deal with his vampirism.

Thirsty (album)

Thirsty is Marvin Sapp's seventh studio album and his fourth release on Verity Records. The album was commercially successful in Gospel Music peaking at number 28 on the U.S. Billboard 200, number 4 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, and number 1 on the Top Gospel Albums chart. It has been certified Gold by the RIAA on July 9, 2008 and has sold over 712,000 copies as of March 2010. This is Marvin Sapp's best selling album of his solo career.

Thirsty (disambiguation)

Thirst is a craving for liquids.

Thirsty may also refer to:

  • Thirsty (novel), a horror novel by Matthew T. Anderson
Thirsty (song)

"Thirsty" is a song by American singer and songwriter Mariah Carey from her fourteenth studio album, Me. I Am Mariah... The Elusive Chanteuse. It was co-written by Carey in collaboration with Hit-Boy, Denesia Andrews and MaryAnn Tatum. Carey and Hit-Boy also produced it, with co-production from Rey Reel. The alternate version of "Thirsty", featuring one rap verse from American rapper Rich Homie Quan, received its radio premiere on Power 105.1 on May 13, 2014, a day before the album version featuring just Carey was made available to stream. It has been described as a "club-friendly" R&B song influenced by hip hop, which makes use of a minimal synth beat.

The song was met with a mixed reaction from music critics; some were complimentary of her decision to work with Hit-Boy and Rich Homie Quan, while others felt that Carey was trying too hard to appeal to a mass audience by doing so. Electro pop band Purple Crush also claimed that Carey used the hook from their 2013 song of the same name. Following the release of the album, "Thirsty" debuted on the South Korean International Gaon Single Chart at number 78 due to strong digital download sales. The song was included on Carey's 2014 tour, The Elusive Chanteuse Show.

Usage examples of "thirsty".

I think he might have dared to declare the wine unfit and called for a different amphora to be broached had he and I not been very thirsty from traveling.

I was so hungry and thirsty that, towards noon, I nearly succumbed very suddenly to the temptation offered by the bason of congealed porage and the jug of cloudy water.

All of them seemed in good spirits as they poured into the dooryard, bedraggled, sweat-soaked, and thirsty as sponges.

Freshly bespectacled, Victor Weluhn -- for it was he -- allegedly went so far as to have a beer on the Holzmarkt, and then another, for the flame throwers had made him thirsty.

The trumpets had piped faintingly out, everyone had bowed, and there was the guarded ruffling of a gathering, stiff, thirsty, and overclad, which had a Solemn Mass to get through before food.

Much to the disappointment of that thirsty individual, therefore, the cork remained undrawn, and the disconsolate Scroggs was obliged to solace himself with a pannikin of hot tea from the boiling kettle.

Kirby done, and I was embarrassed and et three or four pounds of beef and a quart of mashed pertaters, and a big hunk of white bread, and drunk about a gallon of water, because I was purty thirsty.

Moreover, he never again took a willow tree for a model though he occasionally, in times of ground fog, found a niche in a hollow willow or deemed the thirsty eels on their way from the brook to the recumbent cows worthy of his attention.

Carters and waggoners were thirsty and hungry souls and the eating houses and saloop stalls were thronged.

He started to turn toward the pool again, thirsty for a drink of the water, but Slanter blocked his way.

Hungry and thirsty and stranded in a strange place, he and Chao did not know whether another southbound train would be coming through and did not dare ask questions for fear of drawing attention.

In the black thirsty eyes there was a look that spoke volumes,--a look that betrayed what the heart concealed,--and reading that featured emblazonment of hidden guilt, Theos knew beyond all doubt that the rumors concerning the High Priestess and the King were true, .

When the day broke, after the falling of the dreadful night, the brave or the thirsty who ventured forth saw him at his post, silent, unastonished, unafraid.

She grew thirsty, but she hesitated to explore the depths of this dreary abode, in fear of worse horrors than the parlor furniture, and all the places of refreshment which she could see from the window or the door looked terribly masculine and unmoral, and as if they did not know there existed such things as ice cream, or soda, or sherbet.

Sometimes the formation would break and banners were unshouldered while the thirsty and exhausted sat round three-legged pots over picnic fires.