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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | greed, strong desire |
| Synonyms: | acquisitiveness, avarice, avariciousness, avidity, covetousness, craving, eagerness, graspingness, greediness, hunger, infatuation, itching, longing, lust, passion, possessiveness, rapaciousness, rapacity, voracity, yearning |
| Antonyms: | dislike, distaste |
ɪ| Main Entry: | desire |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | want, longing |
| Synonyms: | admiration, ambition, appetite, ardor, aspiration, attraction, avidity, concupiscence, covetousness, craving, craze, cupidity, devotion, doting, eagerness, fancy, fascination, fervor, fondness, frenzy, greed, hankering*, hunger, inclination, infatuation, itch, lasciviousness, lechery, libido, liking, love, lust, mania, motive, need, passion, predilection, proclivity, propensity, rapaciousness, rapture, ravenousness, relish, salacity, solicitude, thirst, urge, voracity, will, wish, yearning |
| Antonyms: | aversion, disgust, dislike, distaste, hate, hatred, repulsion |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | greed |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overwhelming desire for more |
| Synonyms: | acquisitiveness, avarice, avidity, covetousness, craving, cupidity, eagerness, edacity, esurience, excess, gluttony, gormandizing, graspingness, hunger, indulgence, insatiableness, intemperance, longing, piggishness, rapacity, ravenousness, selfishness, swinishness, the gimmies, voracity |
| Antonyms: | benevolence, generosity |
Example Sentences
- Natural ecology has a memory longer than human cupidity.
- Cupidity took hold and generalized itself from top to bottom.
| Main Entry: | lust |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | appetite, passion |
| Synonyms: | animalism, aphrodisia, appetence, appetition, avidity, carnality, concupiscence, covetousness, craving, cupidity, desire, eroticism, excitement, fervor, greed, hunger, itch, lasciviousness, lechery, lewdness, libido, licentiousness, longing, prurience, pruriency, salaciousness, salacity, sensualism, sensuality, thirst, urge, wantonness, weakness, yen |
| Antonyms: | chastity, disenchantment, disgust |
| Main Entry: | covetousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | avarice |
| Synonyms: | avariciousness, cupidity, greed |
| Main Entry: | avidity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | eagerness |
| Synonyms: | avarice, cupidity, enthusiasm, fervor, greediness, intense desire, longing |
| Antonyms: | apathy, indifference |
| Main Entry: | rapacity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | greed |
| Synonyms: | avarice, covetousness, cupidity, greediness, rapaciousness, thievery, voracity |
| Antonyms: | generosity |
| Main Entry: | acquisitiveness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | greed |
| Synonyms: | avarice, avariciousness, avidity, covetousness, cupidity, greediness, possessiveness |
| Main Entry: | avariciousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | greed |
| Synonyms: | acquisitiveness, avarice, avidity, covetousness, cupidity, greediness, money-grubbing, money-hunger, rapaciousness, rapacity |
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