Avid means eagerly devoted. An avid reader, an avid fan, avid collectors.
It nearly always sits in front of a noun naming an enthusiasm — avid reader, avid gardener, avid supporter — and it is warm in that use. Standing alone with for it keeps the older harder sense of greedy: avid for power. Note that the Latin root means craving, and avarice comes from the same wanting.
1adjectiveavidEagerly devoted to something.
“My father is an avid gardener who spends every weekend in the vegetable patch.”
synonyms: keen, enthusiastic
avid is a quality of eagerness.
Also accepted in games: keen, enthusiastic
Latin avidus means eager or greedy, from avere, to crave. Avarice comes from the same craving.
Proto-Indo-European
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French
avide
English, today
avid
Built from
From French avide. From French avide, from Latin avidus (“eager, desirous; greedy”), from aveō (“wish, desire, long for, crave”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA