Definitions for avid

avid av·id

Spelling: [av-id]
IPA: /ˈæv ɪd/

Avid is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 35 anagrams from letters in avid (adiv).

Definitions for avid

adjective

  1. showing great enthusiasm for or interest in: Synonyms: enthusiastic, ardent, keen; devoted, dedicated; zealous, fanatic. Antonyms: indifferent, apathetic; reluctant.
  2. extremely desirous (often followed by for or sometimes of): Synonyms: eager; hungry, greedy, insatiable; covetous. Antonyms: disdainful, loath.

Origin of avid

1760-70; French avide Latin avidus, equivalent to av(ēre) ‘to crave’ + -idus -id4

Examples for avid

Describing by biographers as an avid writer of letters, little of his correspondence appears available to public view.

He cast a glance about him, his eye, avid with curiosity, held rigidly in restraint.

He grew up both a computer geek in the early days of video games and an avid record collector.

The reading public is avid of good books, but it does not hear about them.

Now, just as avid an art collector, Jay Z spoke about the meeting of cultural worlds (and rapped about them) in “Picasso Baby”.

The "brass hats," as Blake had foreseen, were avid for details.

There was much traders' blood in Venice, and, trader-like, she was avid of possessions.

Fryberg was an avid hunter, according to his Facebook posts.

She flung herself on him with the avid girlishness of a Bengal tiger.

All this time, even back when he was studying at Purdue, Pragnell was an avid home-brewer.

Word Value for avid
Scrable

8

Words with friends

9

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