Definition of Thirsty

Thirsty

Feeling thirst; having a painful or distressing sensation from want of drink; hence, having an eager desire.

Deficient in moisture; dry; parched.

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Thirsty Quotations

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.
Khalil Gibran

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
Aristotle

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.
Salvador Dali

If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
Sophocles

When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith; when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science.
Anton Chekhov

I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one.
Dag Hammarskjold

Whenever someone asks me if I want water with my Scotch, I say I'm thirsty, not dirty.
Joe E. Lewis

Don't think that because you haven't heard from me for a while that I went to sleep. I am still here, like a spirit roaming the night. Thirsty, hungry, seldom stopping to rest.
Spike Lee

To be thirsty and to drink water is the perfection of sensuality rarely achieved. Sometimes you drink water; other times you are thirsty.
Jose Bergamin

There comes a moment on a journey when something sweet, something irresistible and charming as wine raised to thirsty lips, wells up in the traveller's being.
Patrick MacGill

I drink because I'm thirsty.
Shane MacGowan

I haven't been drinking for years now. Something's got to give. I don't mind that I'm a guy that's stopped drinking, though this interview is making me mighty thirsty.
Dan Hicks

Drinking when we are not thirsty and making love at all seasons, madam: that is all there is to distinguish us from other animals.
Pierre Beaumarchais

When we are thirsty, we drink the white waters of the pool, the sweetness of our mournful childhood.
Georg Trakl

I'm a little thirsty, can I go drink out of your toilet?
Mark McKinney

There are two reasons for drinking: one is, when you are thirsty, to cure it; the other, when you are not thirsty, to prevent it.
Thomas Love Peacock

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Thirsty Translations

thirsty in Afrikaans is dors
thirsty in Dutch is dorstig
thirsty in German is durstig
thirsty in Italian is assetato
thirsty in Spanish is sediento

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