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| Main Entry: | |
| 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: | insatiable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | voracious, wanting |
| Synonyms: | clamorous, crying, demanding, desiring, exigent, gluttonous, greedy, importunate, insatiate, insistent, intemperate, pressing, quenchless, rapacious, ravenous, unappeasable, unquenchable, unsatisfiable, unsatisfied, urgent, yearning |
| Antonyms: | fulfilled, full, pleased, satiable, satisfied |
| Main Entry: | mean |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ungenerous |
| Synonyms: | close, greedy, mercenary, mingy, miserly, niggard, parsimonious, penny-pinching, penurious, rapacious, scrimpy, selfish, stingy, tight, tight-fisted |
| Notes: | the median is the halfway point, dividing a series of numbers in half - while a mean is the average of the sum of the series |
| Antonyms: | generous, kind, unselfish |
| Main Entry: | predatory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | eating, destroying for sustenance or without conscience |
| Synonyms: | bloodthirsty, carnivorous, depredatory, despoiling, greedy, hungry, hunting, marauding, pillaging, plundering, predacious, predative, preying, rapacious, raptorial, ravaging, ravening, thieving, voracious, vulturine, vulturous, wolfish |
| Main Entry: | ravenous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very hungry; desirous |
| Synonyms: | avaricious, could eat a horse, covetous, devouring, edacious, empty, famished, ferocious, gluttonous, grasping, greedy, insatiable, insatiate, omnivorous, predatory, rapacious, ravening, starved, starved to death, starving, voracious, wolfish |
| Antonyms: | full, satisfied |
| Main Entry: | savage |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cruel, vicious |
| Synonyms: | atrocious, barbarous, beastly, bestial, bloodthirsty, bloody, brutal, brutish, cold-blooded, crazed, demoniac, destructive, devilish, diabolical, fell, feral, ferine, ferocious, fierce, frantic, furious, grim, harsh, heartless, hellish, infernal, inhuman, inhumane, malevolent, malicious, merciless, murderous, pitiless, rabid, raging, rapacious, ravening, relentless, remorseless, ruthless, sadistic, truculent, unrelenting, violent, wolfish |
| Antonyms: | benign, kind, nice |
| Main Entry: | stingy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | penny-pinching, averse to spending money |
| Synonyms: | acquisitive, avaricious, chary, cheap, chintzy, churlish, close, close-fisted, costive, covetous, curmudgeonly, economical, extortionate, frugal, grasping, greedy, grudging, ignoble, illiberal, ironfisted, mean, miserly, narrow, near, parsimonious, pennywise, penurious, petty, pinchpenny, rapacious, saving, scrimping, scurvy, selfish, skimping, sordid, sparing, thrifty, tightfisted, uncharitable, ungenerous, ungiving |
| Antonyms: | generous, spendthrift, wasteful |
| Main Entry: | thieving/thievish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | criminal |
| Synonyms: | crooked, cunning, dishonest, fraudulent, furtive, kleptomaniacal, larcenous, light-fingered, pilfering, piratic, plunderous, predatory, rapacious, secretive, sly, spoliative, stealthy, sticky-fingered |
| Antonyms: | benevolent, philanthropic |
| Main Entry: | voracious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very hungry, greedy |
| Synonyms: | avid, covetous, devouring, dog-hungry, edacious, empty, gluttonous, gorging, grasping, gross, insatiable, omnivorous, piggy, prodigious, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, sating, starved, starved to death, starving, uncontrolled, unquenchable |
| Antonyms: | quenched, satisfied |
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