Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Desiring; very desirous; eagerly longing.
- Pertaining to desire or volition. Sir W. Hamilton.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Desiring; eagerly desirous.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective archaic eagerly
desirous
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- adjective marked by eager desire
Etymologies
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Examples
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What is completely clear, however, is that appetent imperialists and yellow journalists were hungry for the war, so much so that they succeeded in bringing it about, including ugly extended fighting in the Philippines against the anti-colonialist guerillas whom the Americans were supposed to be there liberating.
Getting Past "Oh!" Why Americans Misunderestimate the Depravity of the President They Hate 2007
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But on such a morning, apparently, with thousands of webs ready, there can hardly have been enough flies to go round; for we saw all the appetent spiders had emerged from their tubes and were waiting impatiently on the web itself -- as though the host should sit on the tablecloth waiting for his guest.
Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned Christopher Morley 1923
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The crash and scramble of that big, rich, appetent Western city she did not take in at all, except to notice that the noise of the drays and street-cars tired her.
The song of the lark 1915
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The crash and scramble of that big, rich, appetent Western city she did not take in at all, except to notice that the noise of the drays and street-cars tired her.
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The crash and scramble of that big, rich, appetent Western city she did not take in at all, except to notice that the noise of the drays and street-cars tired her.
The Song of the Lark Willa Sibert Cather 1910
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WE discovered the means of drawing out the various electricities from the body to which they are appetent, and of concentrating and preserving them for use.
Another World Fragments from the Star City of Montalluyah Benjamin Lumley 1843
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If you are an appetent goal setter you will want to read this to learn some specifics linked with real estate investing.
Crosby Finance 2008
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n. - strong desire; craving; powerful instinct. appetent, adj. - desirable. appetition, n. yearning. adj. - flattened. applanation, n.
xml's Blinklist.com 2008
jmjarmstrong commented on the word appetent
JM avoids all appetent tents.
January 18, 2011
dreamerdiver commented on the word appetent
Her appetite for apple pie is appetent.
January 15, 2015