appetent

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
15
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/ˈæpətənt/

Definition of appetent

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (archaic)Eagerly desirous; greedy.
    “knowing the Earle to be thirsty and Appetent after Glory and Renownie”
    “During this first winter Thea got no city consciousness. Chicago was simply a wilderness through which one had to find one's way. She felt no interest in the general briskness and zest of the crowds. 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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Etymology

From Latin appetēns, present participle of appetō.

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