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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | greedy |
| Synonyms: | acquisitive, avaricious, avid, carnivorous, close, close-fisted, covetous, craving, desirous, devouring, eager, edacious, esurient, gluttonous, gobbling, gormandizing, grabby, grasping, grudging, gulping, guzzling, hungry, impatient, insatiable, insatiat |
| 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: | hungry |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | starving; desirous |
| Synonyms: | athirst, avid, carnivorous, could eat a horse, covetous, craving, eager, edacious, empty, esurient, famished, famishing, flying light, got the munchies, greedy, hankering, hoggish, hollow, hungered, insatiate, keen, omnivorous, on empty stomach, piggish, rapacious, ravenous, starved, unfilled, unsatisfied, voracious, yearning |
| Antonyms: | full, replete, satiated, satisfied, stuffed |
| Main Entry: | possessive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | greedy |
| Synonyms: | acquisitive, avaricious, controlling, craving, desirous, dominating, grabby, grasping, hoggish, selfish |
| Main Entry: | selfish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | thinking only of oneself |
| Synonyms: | egocentric, egoistic, egoistical, egomaniacal, egotistic, egotistical, greedy*, hoggish, mean, mercenary, miserly, narcissistic, narrow, narrow-minded, out for number one, parsimonious, prejudiced, self-centered, self-indulgent, self-interested, self-seeking, stingy, ungenerous, wrapped up in oneself |
| Antonyms: | caring, kind, unselfish |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | porcine |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pertaining to pigs |
| Synonyms: | hoggish, piggish, rapacious |
| Main Entry: | edacious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | voracious |
| Synonyms: | devouring, esurient, gluttonous, greedy, hoggish, insatiable, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, unappeasable |
| Main Entry: | grabby |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | greedy |
| Synonyms: | acquisitive, avaricious, avid, carnivorous, close, close-fisted, covetous, craving, desirous, devouring, eager, edacious, esurient, gluttonous, gobbling, gormandizing, grasping, grudging, gulping, guzzling, hoggish, hungry, impatient, insati, insatiable |
| Main Entry: | piggish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | greedy |
| 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, prehensile, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, selfish, stingy, swinish, tight*, tight-fisted, voracious |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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