Thesaurus:greedy
English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]Sense: excessively eager to obtain and possess
[edit]Synonyms
[edit]- acquisitive
- avaricious
- cormorant (attributively, obsolete)
- covetous
- edacious
- esurient
- grasping
- greedy
- miserable (obsolete)
- piggish
- miserly
- rapacious
- selfish [⇒ thesaurus]
- sordid
- sharp-set
- voracious [⇒ thesaurus]
Hypernyms
[edit]Hyponyms
[edit]See also
[edit]- stingy [⇒ thesaurus]
- frugal [⇒ thesaurus]
- greed [⇒ thesaurus]
- glutton [⇒ thesaurus]
- Thesaurus:craving
- Thesaurus:hungry
- Thesaurus:thirsty
Further reading
[edit]- “817A. greed” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “greedy” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.