Synonym: eager, greedy. Similar words: avidity, star of david, vivid, video, livid, divide, avian, provide. Meaning: ['ævɪd] adj. 1. (often followed by `for') ardently or excessively desirous 2. marked by active interest and enthusiasm.
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31 His ballgame companion, Marge Locke, is just as avid a fan.
32 But in avid pursuit of the lowest common denominator, Fox became a catalyst in the coarsening of popular culture.
33 Perhaps it was that which made her avid for the things that money could buy.
34 It was avid for imperial expansion, and the majority of its citizens wanted to get rich.
35 In her youth Amy had been an avid tennis player.
36 His own father had been an avid ornithologist, so his aunt had told him.
37 Whilst at public school, the young Joe Strummer was an avid stamp collector.
38 There was Little Liz, the rose-bloom on her cheek, avid for leather and narcotics.
39 Formerly an avid jogger and weight-lifter, Turner leans on a cane to walk around her small apartment on good days.
40 Reagan was an avid reader of the conservative monthly Kuman Events, and frequently quoted from it at length.
41 The library was a room which the Empress used constantly, for she was all her life an avid reader.
42 Many become avid readers, work-out maniacs or bingo fanatics during the six months away from home.
43 Within every educational category, heavy newspaper readers are avid joiners, whereas heavy viewers are more likely to be loners.
44 Tim's father is an avid collector of old blues and jazz records.
45 I am delighted to say that both previous Prime Ministers under whom I served are avid and enthusiastic collectors of that porcelain.
46 But now she was an avid reader who liked nothing better than to haunt old bookstores.
47 An avid Everton supporter, Christopher was nominated for the award by a teacher.
48 She struck him as perilous and avid, and he had the sensation of going into a skid.
49 I am an avid reader of your magazine and eagerly look forward to each month's issue.
50 Facing up to it I am an avid Punch reader, but enough is enough.
51 Andean vultures become avid for the life-giving molecule with quite a different set of mutations.
52 Not a city but a metropolis, with enough mazy back streets and alleys and passageways to satisfy the most avid intriguer.
53 Their suitcases had been seized by the hall porter and an ageing bell-boy, both avid for Kent cigarettes.
54 He took avid notes as Father Campbell outlined the program for the week.
55 The quarrel reportedly went as far as President Franjo Tudjman, an avid tennis fan.
56 It's a beauty - and definitely not just for the avid climber.
57 There was Philippa Mannering looking avid in a beautifully cut check suit and a brown beret at a rakish angle.
58 Rex was captivated by the sea in a way that others might be avid golf players or inveterate bird watchers.
59 Even the most avid mycologists dislike being shot over a chanterelle.
60 Joe is an avid bird watcher.