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avid

1 ardent, devoted, eager, enthusiastic, fanatical, fervent, intense, keen, keen as mustard, passionate, zealous

2    acquisitive, athirst, avaricious, covetous, grasping, greedy, hungry, insatiable, rapacious, ravenous, thirsty, voracious

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1 apathetic, impassive, indifferent, lukewarm, unenthusiastic

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avid

1       adj   You use avid to describe someone who is very enthusiastic about something that they do.
usu ADJ n
He misses not having enough books because he's an avid reader.
♦   avidly      adv   ADV with v
Thank you for a most entertaining magazine, which I read avidly each month.

2       adj   If you say that someone is avidfor something, you mean that they are very eager to get it.
v-link ADJ, usu ADJ for n
He was intensely eager, indeed avid, for wealth.
♦   avidly      adv   ADV with v
Western suppliers too are competing avidly for business abroad.

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