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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | greedy |
| Synonyms: | covetous, gluttonous, hoarding, money-grubbing, pleonectic, predatory, rapacious, selfish, tight* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | avid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | enthusiastic |
| Synonyms: | ardent, athirst, avaricious, breathless, covetous, desirous, devoted, dying to, eager, fanatical, fervent, gotta have, grasping, greedy, hungry, impatient, insatiable, intense, keen, passionate, rapacious, ravenous, thirsty, voracious, zealous |
| Antonyms: | dispassionate, indifferent, unenthusiastic |
| Main Entry: | covetous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | greedy; very desirous |
| Synonyms: | acquisitive, avaricious, avid, close-fisted, eager, ensurient, envious, gluttonous, grabby, grasping, green-eyed, grudging, hogging, itchy, jealous, keen, mercenary, piggish, prehensile, rapacious, ravenous, selfish, swinish, voracious, yearning |
| Antonyms: | benevolent, generous, giving |
| Main Entry: | economical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | conservative with resources; careful |
| Synonyms: | avaricious, canny, chary, circumspect, close, closefisted, cost-effective, curmudgeonly, efficient, frugal, meager, mean, methodical, miserly, money-saving, niggardly, on the rims, parsimonious, penny-pinching, penny-wise, penurious, practical, provident, prudent, prudential, saving, scrimping, skimping, spare, sparing, stingy, thrifty, tight, time-saving, unwasteful, watchful, work-saving |
| Notes: | economic means 'pertaining to the production and use of income' and economical is 'avoiding waste, being careful of resources' |
| Antonyms: | careless, expensive, uncareful, uneconomical, wasteful |
| Main Entry: | grasping |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | greedy |
| Synonyms: | acquisitive, avaricious, avid, close-fisted, covetous, desirous, extorting, extortionate, grabby, itchy, mean, miserly, niggardly, penny-pinching, penurious, prehensile, rapacious, selfish, stingy*, tightfisted, usurious, venal |
| Antonyms: | generous, unselfish |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | greedy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | desiring excessively |
| Synonyms: | acquisitive, avaricious, avid, carnivorous, close, close-fisted, covetous, craving, desirous, devouring, eager, edacious, esurient, gluttonous, gobbling, gormandizing, grabby, grasping, grudging, gulping, guzzling, hoggish, hungry, impatient, insatiable, insatiate, intemperate, itchy, miserly, niggardly, omnivorous, parsimonious, pennypinching, penurious, piggish, prehensile, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, selfish, stingy, swinish, tight*, tight-fisted, voracious |
| Antonyms: | abstemious, benevolent, charitable, extravagant, generous, liberal, philanthropic |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mercenary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | greedy for money |
| Synonyms: | acquisitive, avaricious, bribable, corrupt, covetous, grabby, grasping, miserly, money-grubbing, selfish, sordid, stingy, unethical, unprincipled, unscrupulous, venal |
| Antonyms: | generous, unselfish |
| Main Entry: | miserly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | greedy, stingy |
| Synonyms: | abject, avaricious, beggarly, cheapskate, churlish, close, close-fisted, covetous, grasping, ignoble, illiberal, mean, parsimonious, penny-pinching, penurious, skinflint, sordid, tightfisted, ungenerous |
| Antonyms: | generous, giving, liberal |
| Main Entry: | narrow |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cheap, stingy |
| Synonyms: | avaricious, close, mean, mercenary, scrimpy, tight*, ungenerous |
| Antonyms: | generous, spendthrift, wasting |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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