avid
Enthusiastic; keen; eager; showing great interest in something or desire to do something.
Adjective
- Enthusiastic; keen; eager; showing great interest in something or desire to do something.
- an avid fan of 1960s sci-fi movies
- an avid learner of history
- I'm an avid reader.
Synonyms: animated ardent avid big [⇒ thesaurus] [on] bubbly eager earnest ebullient energetic enthusiastic excited exhilarated fanatic fanatical fervent fervid feverish gassed geeked gung ho hearty high-spirited impassioned juiced
- greedy
Origin
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew- Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew-eh₁yeti Latin aveō Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin avidusbor. French avide English avid From French avide, from Latin avidus (“eager, desirous; greedy”), from aveō (“wish, desire, long for, crave”).