thirsty

thirsty

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: thûrst′ē, IPA^(key): /ˈθɜː(ɹ)st.i/

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  Rhymes: -ɜː(r)sti

Adjective

thirsty (comparative thirstier, superlative thirstiest)

1. Needing to drink.

   After all that work I am really thirsty.

2. Causing thirst; giving one a need to drink.
   • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula:

     I had for dinner, or rather supper, a chicken done up some way with red pepper, which was very good but thirsty.

   • 2004, Charlotte Williamson, Vehicle maintenance for women, →ISBN:

     Invest in a water bottle: cycling can be thirsty work.

3. Craving something.

   I am thirsty for knowledge.

   After the president left office, the nation was thirsty for change.

   1. (slang) Desiring sex.

Synonyms

• (needing to drink, craving something): athirst (archaic)
• (needing to drink): parched

Derived terms

• bloodthirsty

Related terms

• thirst

Translations

needing to drink

Albanian: etur (sq) Arabic: عَطْشَان‎ (ʿaṭšān), ظَامِئ‎ (ẓāmiʾ) Armenian: ծարավ (hy) (carav) Aromanian: sitos Azerbaijani: susuz Bashkir: һыуһаған (hïwhağan) Belarusian: які́ хо́ча піць (jakí xóča picʹ) Bulgarian: жа́ден (bg) (žáden) Burmese: ရေငတ် (my) (re-ngat), ရေဆာ (rehca) Catalan: assedegat (ca) Chinese: Cantonese: 口渴 (hau2 hot3), 頸渴, 颈渴 (geng2 hot3) Hakka: 嘴渴 (choi-hot), 肚渴 (tú-hot) Mandarin: 渴 (zh) (kě), 口渴 (zh) (kǒukě) Min Nan: 喙焦 (zh-min-nan) (chhùi-ta) Czech: žíznivý (cs) m Danish: tørstig (da) Dutch: dorstig (nl) Esperanto: soifi Finnish: janoinen (fi) French: avoir soif (fr) (be thirsty) Gallurese: sititu Georgian: მწყურვალი (mc̣q̇urvali), მოწყურებული (moc̣q̇urebuli) German: durstig (de) Greek: διψασμένος (el) (dipsasménos) Ancient Greek: δίψιος (dípsios) Hebrew: צָמֵא‎ (he) (tsame) Hindi: प्यासा (hi) (pyāsā) Hungarian: szomjas (hu) Icelandic: þyrstur (is) Ido: durstoza (io) Indonesian: haus (id) Irish: indicated by phrases using the noun tart (ga) m "thirst" Isan: please add this translation if you can Italian: assetato (it) Japanese: 喉が渇いた (のどがかわいた, nodo ga kawaita) Kazakh: сусаған (swsağan), шөлдеген (kk) (şöldegen) Khmer: ស្រេកទឹក (sreɛk tɨk) Korean: 목마른 (ko) (mongmareun), 갈증난 (galjeungnan) Lao: ຫິວນ້ຳ (hiu nam) Latin: sitiens, siccus Latvian: izslāpis Lithuanian: ištroškęs

Luxembourgish: duuschtereg Lü: please add this translation if you can Macedonian: жеден (žeden) Malay: dahaga, haus Maori: matewai, hiawai Mongolian: ангасан (angasan) Nahuatl: āmiqui Norwegian: tørst (no) Old Norse: þyrstr Persian: تشنه‎ (fa) (tešne) Polish: spragniony (pl) m Portuguese: sequioso (pt), sedento (pt), com (pt) sede (pt) Quechua: yarqa Romanian: setos (ro), însetat (ro) Russian: жа́ждущий (ru) (žážduščij), томи́мый жа́ждой (tomímyj žáždoj), (verb) хоте́ть пить impf (xotétʹ pitʹ) Sardinian: Campidanese: sídiu Logudorese: sídiu Sassarese: settiu Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: жедан Roman: žedan (sh) Shan: please add this translation if you can Slovak: smädný Slovene: žejen (sl) Spanish: sediento (es) Swedish: törstig (sv), törstande (sv) (rare) Tagalog: uhaw Tajik: ташна (tašna) Tamil: please add this translation if you can Thai: กระหาย (th) (gràhăai) Tibetan: ཁ་བསྐོམས (kha bskoms) Turkish: susuz (tr) Turkmen: teşne, suwsan Ukrainian: спра́глий (spráhlyj) Urdu: پیاسا‎ (pyāsā) Uzbek: chanqagan (uz), tashna (uz) Vietnamese: khát (vi) Welsh: sychedig (cy) White Hmong: please add this translation if you can Yiddish: דאָרשטיק‎ (dorshtik) Zhuang: hozhawq, hozgan

See also

• hungry
• I am thirsty

Anagrams

• thristy