Avid

Definition: Avid

Avid

Adjective

1. (often followed by `for') ardently or excessively desirous; "avid for adventure"; "an avid ambition to succeed"; "fierce devouring affection"; "the esurient eyes of an avid curiosity"; "greedy for fame".

2. Marked by active interest and enthusiasm; "an avid sports fan"; "a great walker"; "an eager beaver".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "avid" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1885. (references)

AVID

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Avid

Desire

Eager, avid, keen; burning, fervent, ardent; agog; all agog; breathless; impatient; (impetuous); bent on, intent on, set on, bent upon, intent upon, set upon; mad after, enrage, rabid, dying for, devoured by desire.

Crosswords: Avid

Romanian (avid, eager, greedily, greedy, insatiable, rapacious).

References

• Avid Technology Incorporated: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

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Books

• Avid Editing, A Guide for Beginning and Intermediate Users (reference)

• Avid Xpress DV 3.5 Editing (reference)

• Avid Xpress DV 3.5 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickPro Guide (reference)

• Creating Graphics for Avid Xpress DV 3.5 with Adobe Photoshop (reference)

• Editing Digital Film: Integrating Final Cut Pro, Avid, and Media 100 (reference)

  (more book examples)

High Tech

• Pinnacle Systems Targa 1000 Pro with Avid Mcxpress For Nt (reference)

• Avid Cinema for Windows Soft Pak 1.5 (reference)

• AVID TECHNOLOGY Avid Xpress DV 3.5 (Windows/Macintosh) (reference)

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Law office shingle - Either lawyer humor or an avid fisherman. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Gouache painting of a pair of red-breasted mergansers by Neal Anderson, 7401 Stevens Ridge Rd., Lincoln, Nebraska 68516. Anderson, an avid hunter and outdoorsman, won the 1988 contest with a design of a pair of lesser scaup, which appeared on the 1989-90 Federal Duck Stamp. Anderson studied at Omaha Art School and has been a full-time artist since 1986, specializing in waterfowl and painting exclusively in gouache. His work is renowned for its detail, sharpness, and clarity. Return to the Federal Duck Stamp Office Home Page.

Acrylic painting of a pair of black-bellied whistling ducks by Jim Hautman, 2015 Xanthus Lane, Plymouth, Minnesota 55447. At age 25, he is the youngest wildlife artist ever to win the Duck Stamp Contest. This was the fifth time he entered. Jim placed third in the 1987 contest with a pair of bufflehead ducks. As a full-time wildlife artist, he exhibits regularly at the Michigan Wildlife Habitat Foundation's wildlife art show, as well as local exhibitions. He is a native Minnesotan and an avid outdoorsman and hunter. Painting since childhood, he decided to combine his love of the outdoors with his artistic ability. Return to the Federal Duck Stamp Office Home Page.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The most avid proponents of the post-War Amendments undoubtedly intended them to remove all legal distinctions among "all persons born or naturalized in the United States." (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

An avid reader, Peggy couldn't put down the new mystery thriller. (references)

Economic History

New Zealand

New Zealanders are avid travelers. (references)

Sweden

Swedes enjoy a legislated 5 weeks paid holiday each year and they are avid travelers. (references)

Singapore

Singapore consumers are avid consumers of ice cream and yogurt and hold U.S. brands in high regard. (references)

Travel

Italy

Milan's city code 02. Italians are avid users of mobile phones and will generally provide their mobile telephone number. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Beginning with "avid": avid-approved.

Afrikaans

gretig (acquisitive, eager, eager for, greedy). (various references)

Albanian

lakmues (covetous, desirous, gluttonous, indicator), i dëshiruar (anxious, fain, longing, wishful, wistful). (various references)

Arabic 

‏متكالب (greedy), ‏نهم (cormorant, gluttonous, gluttony, gourmand, insatiable, insatiate, lickerish, open mouthed, pig, piggy, ravenous, straggling, voracious, voracity), ‏حاد (abrupt, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, be sharp, biting, brisk, clear, cutting, exquisite, heavy, incisive, intense, intensified, intensive, keen, loud, nasal, penetrating, petulant, piercing, piquant, pithy, poignant, pointed, prompt, pronounced, pungent, quick, ripe, rough, salty, severe, sharp, shrill, squeaky, strident, strong, trenchant), ‏طماع (grasping, greedy, kidnapper, predatory, pushing, rapacious, ravening), ‏طامع (covetous, greedy, ravening), ‏شره (avidity, cormorant, gluttonous, gourmand, greed, greedy, gross, hoggish, lickerish, pig, piggish, predatory, solicitous, voracious, voracity). (various references)

Bulgarian 

ненаситен (covetous, craving, grasping, greedy, insatiable, insatiate, ravenous, sateless, slakeless, voracious), жаден (ambitious, concupiscent, craving, droughty, dry, eager, hungry, thirsty), алчен (accumulative, acquisitive, covetous, eager, gloating, grasping, having, miserly, moneygrubbing, rapacious, sordid), лаком (esurient, gourmand, grasping, greedy, gutsy, hoggish, lickerish, openmouthed, piggish, ravenous, voracious). (various references)

Chinese 

热中. (various references)

Czech

zanícený (dedicated, enthusiastic, fervent, festered, zealous), vášnivý (ardent, fervent, heated, impassioned, inveterate, keen, passional, passionate, red-hot, sultry, torrid, vehement, violent), chtivý (eager, greedy, hungry). (various references)

Dutch

happig (acquisitive, eager, greedy), gretig (acquisitive, eager, greedy), belust (acquisitive, eager, greedy), begerig (acquisitive, eager, greedy). (various references)

Esperanto

avida (eager for, greedy). (various references)

Farsi 

متمایل (Apt, Like, Prone, Swept, Tendentious), مشتاق (Agog, Anxious, Desirous, Eager, Earnest, Enthusiast, Enthusiastic, Fervid, Fond, Hippie, Hungry, Keen, Perfervid, Raring, Solicitous, Studious, Thirsty, Wilful, Wishful, Wistful), حریص (Avaricious, Fierce, Greedy, Hungry, Perfervid, Voracious, Vulture), ازمند (Avaricious, Cormorant, Covetous, Greedy), ارزومند (Ambitious, Anxious, Desirous, Solicitous, Wishful, Wistful). (various references)

French

avide. (various references)

German

gierig (avaricious, avariciously, avidly, grabby, greedily, greedy, hoggish, lustful, piggishly, voracious), begierig (acquisitive, avidly, aware, desirous, desirously, eager, greedy, hungry, keen, thirstily, thirsty, wishful). (various references)

Greek 

ενθουσιώδης (exuberant, glowing, jubilant, rave), άπληστοσ (acquisitive, cormorant, covetous, greedy, insatiable, rapacious, voracious). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"וט (eager, excited, fervent, keen, keyed up, solicitous), תאב (craving, desirous, eager, greedy, longing, thirsty), בעלן (eager, proprietor), רעבת� י (gluttonous, greedy, hungry, ravenous, voracious). (various references)

Hungarian

mohó (avaricious, be greedy, concupisible, covetous, eager, esurient, gluttonous, grasping, greedy, piggy, to gloat over sg, voracious), kapzsi (acquisitive, avaricious, avariciously, covetous, eager for gain, extortionate, grasping, greedy, have an itching palm, rapacious). (various references)

Indonesian

gemar sekali (doting). (various references)

Italian

avido (acquisitive, athirst, covetous, eager, grasping, greedy, hungry, thirsty, voracious), cupido (Cupid), bramoso (acquisitive, covetous, eager, greedy, hungry, longing, lustful, wishful, yearning). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

読書人 (avid reader), 読書家 (avid reader). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

どくしょか (avid reader), どくしょじ�" (avid reader). (various references)

Korean 

탐욕스러운 (Covetous, Voracious). (various references)

Manx

jollyssagh (greedy, immoderate, insatiable, rapacious, voracious), jioogh (gluttonous, greedy, insatiable, voracious), jeadagh (assiduous, diligent, persevering, prudent, sincere, tidy). (various references)

Pig Latin

aviday.(various references)

Portuguese

ansioso (agitated, agog, anxious, care-worn, eager, hungry, impatient, longing, oppressing, preoccupated, solicitous, uneasy, wishful, wistful), ávido (acquisitive, appropriative, athirst, eager, edacious, greedy, jejune, lickerish, rapacious, ravenous, wishful, wistful). (various references)

Romanian

avid (eager, greedily, greedy, insatiable, rapacious), pasionat (ardent, eager, enthusiast, flaming, glowing, hot stuff, hot-blooded, impassioned, keen, maniac, passional, passionate, perfervid, tropical, warm), lacom (covetous, craving, devouringly, edacious, esurient, glutton, gluttonous, greedy, hoggish, hungry, insatiable, lickerish, open mouthed, piggish, rapacious, ravenous, voracious, wishful, wolfish). (various references)

Russian 

жадный (avaricious, covetous, edacious, esurient, glutton, grasping, greedy, hoggish, insatiable, large-handed, locust, mingy, open mouthed, piggish, rapacious, ravenous, sharp-set, voracious). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

strastven (impassioned, passionary), žudan (covetous, craving, desirous, hungry, keen, longing), željan (covetous, craving, desirous, eager, keen, wishful). (various references)

Spanish

ansioso (agog, anxious, eager, longing, sick, solicitous, yearning), ávido (acquisitive, appetent, athirst, covetous, eager, greedy, lickerish, rapacious). (various references)

Swedish

ivrig (agog, anxious, ardent, desirous, diligent, dying, eager, earnest, fervent, fervid, great, keen, strenuous, strong, urgent, warm, willing, wisful, zealous), glupsk (edacious, glutenous, gluttonous, greedy, open mouthed, piggish, piggy, ravenous, voracious), girig (avaricious, covetous, grabby, grasping, greedy, miserly, moneygrubbing, sordid, stingy), entusiastisk (enthusiastic, glowing, keen, rave, warm). (various references)

Thai

ซึ่งปรารถนา. (various references)

Turkish

arzulu (agog, ambitious, athirst for, desirous, longing, prurient, solicitous, wishful, wistful, yearning), açgözlü (acquisitive, covetous, esurient, grabber, grasping, greedy, hoggish, insatiable, open mouthed, piggish, piglike, rapacious, ravenous, voracious, vulturine, vulturous, wolfish), hırslı (ambitious, angry, competitive, covetous, greedy, greedy for, high-flying, impassioned, passionate, uptight, voracious), doyumsuz (grasping, greedy, insatiable), doymayan. (various references)

Ukrainian

жадібний (acquisitive, avaricious, covetous, edacious, esurient, grasping, greedy, open mouthed, piggish, rapacious), жадний (open mouthed), жадаючий (appetent, athirst, greedy, hungry, longing, solicitous, thirsty, zealous), прагнучий (appetent, athirst). (various references)

Vietnamese 

thèm thu�"ng tham lam, thèm khát (hungry, keen-set), khao khát (aspirant, keen-set, thirsty). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "avid": avidin, avidins, avidities, avidity, avidly, avidness, avidnesses. (additional references)

Words ending with "avid": gravid, impavid, pavid. (additional references)

Words containing "avid": gravida, gravidae, gravidas, gravidities, gravidity, gravidly. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Avid" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Abid, adid, advi, advid, aeid, aevi, afid, agid, ahid, aibd, aidd, aidv, aiud, aiv, akid, alid, alvi, anid, anvir, apid, arvid, Arvids, Asid, atid, auid, avad, Avadi, avait, avat, avay, avd, avdi, avea, aveb, aved, Aveda, aveed, avem, aveo, avet, avex, avey, avi, avia, avib, avic, avide, avids, avied, avil, avim, avin, avio, aviod, avir, avit, Aviti, Avito, aviv, avix, Avmd, Avni, avoc, avod, avond, avox, avud, avuid, avy, avyl, axid, ayid, azid, Azvedo, cavid, david, davydd, evid, favi, gavid, Gayvid, hvid, ivd, ivid, Javadi, lavid, lvid, navaid, Navid, Qvi, svid, tavi, uvid, uvit, vacid, vaid, vaif, vaig, vait, vamid, vanid, vaxid, vid. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: diva.

-1 letter: aid, via.

-2 letters: ad, ai, id.

+1 letter: avoid, davit, divan, divas, pavid, valid, vapid, viand.

+2 letters: advice, advise, avidin, avidly, avoids, dative, davies, davits, divans, gravid, invade, navaid, vailed, varied, vialed, viands, visaed, visard, vizard, waived.

+3 letters: advices, advised, advisee, adviser, advises, advisor, anviled, arrived, availed, aviated, avidins, avidity, avodire, avoided, avoider, caviled, datival, datives, deaving, deviant, deviate, devisal, diluvia, disavow, dissave, evading, glaived, gravida, impavid, invaded, invader, invades, invalid, naevoid, navaids, ovoidal, ravined, rivaled, savvied, valgoid, validly, vanadic, vapidly, vedalia, viaduct, vialled, visaged, visards, vistaed, vizards.