avid

avid
Synonyms and related words:
a hog for, acquisitive, agog, alacritous, all agog, all-devouring, animated, anxious, ardent, athirst, avaricious, bottomless, breathless, bursting to, coveting, covetous, craving, desirous, devouring, eager, esurient, forward, full of life, gluttonous, gobbling, grabby, grasping, greedy, hoggish, impatient, importunate, insatiable, insatiate, insistent, keen, limitless, lively, mercenary, miserly, money-hungry, money-mad, omnivorous, overgreedy, panting, piggish, pressing, prompt, quenchless, quick, rapacious, raring to, ravening, ravenous, ready, ready and willing, slakeless, sordid, spirited, swinish, thirsty, unappeasable, unappeased, unquenchable, unsated, unsatisfied, unslakeable, unslaked, urgent, venal, vital, vivacious, vivid, voracious, wanting, wishful, zestful

Moby Thesaurus. . 1996.

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