thirsty

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   able to take in large quantities of moisture

   thirsty towels

2. 2
   adj

   feeling a need or desire to drink

   after playing hard the children were thirsty

3. 3
   adj

   needing moisture

   thirsty fields under a rainless sky

4. 4
   adj

   Needing to drink water or any liquid that can supply water.

   After all that work in the hot sun, I am really thirsty.

5. 5
   adj

   Craving alcohol; especially, experiencing some alcohol withdrawal.

   After all that work on a stupidly maintained spreadsheet, I am really thirsty.

6. 6
   adj

   Causing thirst; giving one a need to drink.

   Marching is thirsty work.

7. 7
   adj

   Craving something immaterial.

   thirsty for knowledge

8. 8
   noun

   One who is thirsty (for a drink, sex, alcohol, etc.).

   The most interesting thing to the "chicken fanciers"—and the thirsty also—was an ice cream parlor in Morrison. Before we left […] the town ran short on all brands of beer (near, Root, etc.), and the thirsties of the crowd were reduced to the tamer pastime of eating oranges and cracking peanuts.

Etymology

From Middle English thirsty, from Old English þurstiġ, from Proto-West Germanic *þurstug. Equivalent to thirst + -y. Cognate with Dutch dorstig, German durstig.