avid

From French avide, from Latin avidus (“eager, desirous; greedy”), from aveō (“wish, desire, long for, crave”).

• IPA^(key): /ævɪd/, /ævəd/

avid (comparative more avid, superlative most avid)

1. enthusiastic; keen; eager; showing great interest in something or desire to do something

   I'm an avid reader.

   • 1999, Larry Zuckerman, The Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World

     A blanket disdain for indigenous foods doesn't explain the delay, because Spain was avid to adopt a different New World root.

   • 1996, Janette Turner Hospital, Oyster, Virago Press, paperback edition, page 3

     We waited for something to happen, for anything to happen, we were avid for some event to unfold itself out of the burning nothing to save us.

Usually followed by the preposition "to" then a verb e.g. avid to learn; or the preposition "for" then a noun e.g. avid for success (wanting success); also with the preposition "about" e.g. "He's avid about mechanics" (he's very interested in mechanics)

• avidly
• avidity
• avidness

• AIVD, Adiv, Vida, diva

From French avide, Latin avidus.

• IPA^(key): [a.vid]

avid m or n (feminine singular avidă, masculine plural avizi, feminine and neuter plural avide)

1. avid, eager, desirous
2. greedy, grasping