thirsty

English

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈθɜːrsti/

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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 9781740454759:

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

3. Craving something.

   I am thirsty for knowledge.

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

Related terms

• thirst

Derived terms

• bloodthirsty

Translations

needing to drink

• Albanian: etur (sq)
• Arabic: عطشان (ar) (ʿaṭšān), ظامئ (ar) (ẓāmiʾ)
• Armenian: ծարավ (hy) (çarav)
• Catalan: assedegat (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 渴 (cmn) (kě), 口渴 (cmn) (kǒukě)

• Czech: žíznivý (cs) m
• Danish: tørstig (da)
• Dutch: dorstig
• Esperanto: soifi (eo)
• French: assoiffé (fr)
• Georgian: მწყურვალი (ka) (mc'q'urvali), მოწყურებული (ka) (moc'q'urebuli)
• German: durstig (de)
• Greek: διψασμένος (el) (dipsasménos)
• Hebrew: צמא (he) (tsame)
• Hindi: प्यासा (hi) (pyāsā)
• Hungarian: szomjas (hu)
• Icelandic: þyrstur (is)
• Ido: durstoza (io)
• Irish: indicated by phrase using the noun tart (ga) m "thirst"
• Italian: assetato (it)
• Japanese: 喉が乾いた (ja) (のどがかわいた, nodo ga kawaita)
• Korean: 목마른 (ko) (mongmareun), 갈증난 (ko) (galjeungnan)
• Latin: sitiens, siccus
• Latvian: izslāpis (lv)
• Lithuanian: ištroškęs (lt)
• Luxembourgish: duuschtereg (lb)

• Mongolian: ангасан (mn) (angasan)
• Norwegian: tørst (no)
• Old Norse: þyrstr
• Persian: تشنه (fa) (tešne)
• Polish: spragniony (pl) m
• Portuguese: sequioso (pt), sedento (pt), com sede (pt)
• Romanian: setos (ro)
• Russian: жаждущий (ru) (žážduščij), томимый жаждой (ru) (tomímyj žáždoj), (verb) хотеть пить (ru) (xotétʹ pitʹ)
• Sardinian:

  Campidanese Sardinian: sídiu

  Gallurese Sardinian: sititu

  Logudorese Sardinian: sídiu

• Sassarese Sardinian: settiu
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: жедан (sh)

  Roman: žedan (sh)

• Slovak: smädný (sk)
• Spanish: sediento (es)
• Swedish: törstig (sv), törstande (sv), törst (sv)
• Thai: กระหาย (th) (gràhăai)
• Turkish: susuz (tr)
• Urdu: پیاسا (ur) (pyāsā)
• Vietnamese: khát (vi)
• Welsh: sychedig
• Yiddish: דאָרשטיק (yi) (dorshtik)

See also

• hungry
• I am thirsty