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avid adjective [ ˈavɪd ]

• having or showing a keen interest in or enthusiasm for something.
• "an avid reader of science fiction"
Similar: keen, eager, enthusiastic, ardent, passionate, devoted, dedicated, fervent, fervid, zealous, fanatical, voracious, insatiable, wholehearted, earnest, as keen as mustard,
Opposite: apathetic, half-hearted,
Origin: mid 18th century: from French avide or Latin avidus, from avere ‘crave’.


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