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Main Entry:
covetous [kuhv-i-tuhs]
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: envious
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: jealous, resentful
Synonyms: appetent, aspiring, begrudging, coveting, covetous, craving, desiring, desirous, distrustful, fain, grasping, greedy, green with envy, green-eyed, grudging, hankering, invidious, jaundiced, longing for, malicious, spiteful, suspicious, umbrageous, watchful, wishful, yearning
Antonyms: comfortable, confident, content, kind, pleased, unenvious
Main Entry: forced
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: compulsory, strained
Synonyms: affected, artificial, begrudging, binding, bound, coerced, coercive, compelled, conscripted, constrained, contrived, enforced, factitious, false, grudging, inflexible, insincere, involuntary, labored, mandatory, obligatory, peremptory, rigid, slave, stiff, stringent, unnatural, unwilling, wooden
Notes: forcible indicates the use of brute force, forced means done involuntarily, and forceful suggests a potential for force
Antonyms: noncompulsory, spontaneous, unforced, voluntary
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
Main Entry: involuntary
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: automatic; not done willingly
Synonyms: automatic, begrudging, blind, compulsory, conditioned, forced, grudging, habitual, impulsive, instinctive, instinctual, knee-jerk, obligatory, reflex, reflexive, reluctant, spontaneous, uncalculated, unconscious, uncontrolled, unintended, unintentional, unmeditated, unpremeditated, unprompted, unthinking, unwilling, unwitting, will-less
Antonyms: conscious, intentional, unforced, voluntary
Main Entry: jaundiced
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: tainted, prejudiced
Synonyms: biased, bigoted, bitter, colored, cynical, disapproving, distorted, envious, grudging, hostile, intolerant, jealous, one-sided, opprobrious, partial, partisan, preconceived, prepossessed, resentful, skeptical, spiteful, suspicious, tendentious, unfair, unfriendly, unindifferent, warped, yellow
Antonyms: clean, fresh, unbiased, unprejudiced
Main Entry: jealous
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: desirous; wary
Synonyms: anxious, apprehensive, attentive, begrudging, covetous, demanding, doubting, emulous, envious, envying, grabby, grasping, green-eyed, grudging, guarded, intolerant, invidious, jaundiced, mistrustful, monopolizing, possessive, possessory, protective, questioning, resentful, rival, skeptical, solicitous, suspicious, vigilant, watchful, zealous
Notes: jealous means envious or fearful of being replaced by a rival; zealous means marked by active interest and enthusiasm
Antonyms: confident, content, satisfied, trusting, unresentful
Main Entry: reluctant
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: unenthusiastic, unwilling
Synonyms: afraid, averse, backward, calculating, cautious, chary, circumspect, demurring, diffident, discouraged, disheartened, disinclined, grudging, hanging back, hesitant, hesitating, indisposed, involuntary, laggard, loath, opposed, queasy, recalcitrant, remiss, shy, slack, slow, squeamish, tardy, uncertain, uneager, wary
Antonyms: anxious, eager, enthusiastic, ready, willing
Main Entry: small
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: narrow-minded, nasty
Synonyms: base, grudging, ignoble, illiberal, limited, little, mean, narrow, petty, selfish, set, vulgar
Antonyms: benevolent, broad-minded, considerate, giving, kind
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