thirsty
UK/ˈθɜːs.ti//ˈθɝs.ti/
thirsty adjective: needing to drink water or any liquid that can supply water.
Adjective
thirsty (comparative thirstier, superlative thirstiest)
- Needing to drink water or any liquid that can supply water.
- After all that work in the hot sun, I am really thirsty.
- Diggle Station lies high up in the Pennine Chain, subject to extreme low temperatures. With this and heavy snowfall in the winter months, Diggle bids fair to compete with the Scottish lines under similar weather conditions, and the provision of unfrozen water in the higher ambient temperature of...1959 February, “Letters to the Editor: Diggle Water Troughs”, in Railway Magazine, page 135
- Craving alcohol; especially, experiencing some alcohol withdrawal.
- After all that work on a stupidly maintained spreadsheet, I am really thirsty.
- Q: What's with John today? He seems off his game. A: He's pretty thirsty, I think.
- Causing thirst; giving one a need to drink.
- Marching is thirsty work.
- I had for dinner, or rather supper, a chicken done up some way with red pepper, which was very good but thirsty.1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula
- Craving something immaterial.
- thirsty for knowledge
- thirsty for attention
- Synonyms:
- athirst
- Craving or desiring sex.
- This is the third time that girl brought up her crush. She must really be thirsty for him.
- The relentless thrill of “Do You Want to Come Over?” is not the only time Britney Spears’s new album Glory makes you feel like you’re being hit on via thirsty text message.2016 August 26, Spencer Kornhaber, “Britney Spears Finds Grace in the Hook-Up on 'Glory'”, in The Atlantic
Noun
thirsty (countable and uncountable, plural thirsties)
- One who is thirsty (for a drink, sex, alcohol, etc.).
- The most interesting thing to the "chicken fanciers"—and the thirsty also—was an ice cream parlor in Morrison. Before we left […] the town ran short on all brands of beer (near, Root, etc.), and the thirsties of the crowd were reduced to the tamer pastime of eating oranges and cracking peanuts.1919, The Mines Magazine, page 99
- A thirsty looking for a draught of water finds a welcome sea of water.2004, Sura College of Competition, Junior Knowledge Book, page 107
- Thirst.
- There is a thirsty that is not for the belly. There is a thirsty for land that belong to we."1948, Esther Warner, New Song in a Strange Land, page 36
- The captain would have to spend all his fortune trying to quench the Dark tenant's thirsty. A thirsty that has spanned thousands of years and never been quenched. Provide for his lusts!2012, Joyce Bethwane, You Are Not Your Own, page 58
thirsty meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
thirsty in Hindi
- needing to drink
- प्यासा pyāsā, तिश्ना tiśnā
thirsty in Tamil
- தொண்டை வறட்சியாக இருக்கிறது, தாகமாக
thirsty in Marathi
- needing to drink
- तहानलेला tahānlelā, तहानलेले tahānlele, तहानलेली tahānlelī
thirsty in Urdu
- needing to drink
- پیاسا pyāsā
More languagesFewer languages
- thirsty in Bengali
- তৃষ্ণার্ত triśnarto, পিয়াসী piẏaśi
- thirsty in Telugu
- దాహం వేసింది, దాహం వేస్తోంది
- thirsty in Malayalam
- ദാഹിച്ചു വലഞ്ഞ, കൊതിയുളള, ആശയുണർത്തുന്ന, വരണ്ട
- thirsty in Kannada
- ಬಾಯಾರಿದ, ಬಾಯಾರಿದೆ, ಬಾಯಾರಿದರು
- thirsty in Punjabi
- ਤਿਹਾਇਆ tihāiā
- thirsty in Gujarati
- તરસ્યું tarasyũ
- thirsty in Odia
- ଶୋଷିଲା śoṣilā, ତୃଷିତ truṣita
- thirsty in Nepali
- तिर्खाएको, तिर्खाएको छ
- thirsty in Tagalog
- uhaw
- thirsty in Arabic
- عَطْشَان ʕaṭšān, ظَمْآن ẓamʔān
- thirsty in Malay
- dahaga, haus
- thirsty in Indonesian
- haus
- thirsty in Persian
- تشنه tešne
- thirsty in Thai
- กระหาย grà-hǎai
- thirsty in Vietnamese
- khát
- thirsty in Myanmar
- ရေငတ် re-ngat, ရေဆာ rehca
Examples of thirsty in a sentence
- After the president left office, the nation was thirsty for change.
- Invest in a water bottle: cycling can be thirsty work.2004, Charlotte Williamson, Vehicle maintenance for women, →ISBN:
- Another way to limit the use of thirsty plants […] Here small beds of flowers, azaleas, and other "thirsties" could be grown satisfactorily.1990, George Waters, The Pacific Horticulture Book of Western Gardening, David R Godine Pub, page 18
- You are like a stream of water to a thirsty in a desert.2018, Pijush Kanti Mukherjee, CoMa Chose Life:
- Afterwards Marguerite declared herself super-hungry, and also thirsty.2017, Adam Roberts, The Real-Town Murders:
Synonyms of thirsty
Antonyms
Forms of thirsty
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | thirstier |
| superlative | thirstiest |
| alternative form (obsolete) | thursty |
| Noun | |
| plural | thirsties |
Origin of thirsty
From Middle English thirsty, from Old English þurstiġ, from Proto-West Germanic *þurstug. Equivalent to thirst + -y. Cognate with Dutch dorstig, German durstig.
Words formed from thirsty
Phrases with thirsty
Words that rhyme with thirsty
Questions about thirsty
- What does thirsty mean?
- Thirsty means needing to drink water or any liquid that can supply water.
- What is thirsty in Hindi?
- Thirsty in Hindi is प्यासा (pyāsā), तिश्ना (tiśnā). See Thirsty meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use thirsty in a sentence?
- After the president left office, the nation was thirsty for change.
- What part of speech is thirsty?
- Thirsty can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce thirsty?
- Thirsty is pronounced /ˈθɝs.ti/ (US).
Words near thirsty in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: thirsty (page history and authors); thirsty (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); thirsty (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); thirsty (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); thirsty (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ਤਿਹਾਇਆ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); તરસ્યું (Gujarati) (page history and authors); thirsty (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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