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