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comparative more avid or (less commonly) avider, superlative most avid or (less commonly) avidest
enthusiastic; keen; eager; showing great interest in something or desire to do something quotations examples
A blanket disdain for indigenous foods doesn't explain the delay, because Spain was avid to adopt a different New World root.
1999, Larry Zuckerman, The Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World
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.
1996, Janette Turner Hospital, Oyster, Virago Press, page 3