| Main Entry: | acquisitive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | eager to obtain knowledge or things |
Synonyms: |
avaricious, avid, covetous, demanding, desirous, grabbing, grabby, grasping, greedy, predatory, prehensile, rapacious |
| Main Entry: | covetous |
| 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: | desirous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | aspiring, hopeful |
Synonyms: |
acquisitive, ambitious, amorous, anxious, avid, covetous, craving, desiring, eager, enthusiastic, grasping, greedy, hot*, itchy, keen, longing, lustful, passionate, prehensile, ready, stimulated, turned on, willing, wishful, wishing, yearning |
Antonyms: |
reluctant, unambitious, unenthusiastic, unhopeful |
| Main Entry: | eager |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | anxious, enthusiastic |
Synonyms: |
acquisitive, agog, ambitious, antsy, appetent, ardent, athirst, avid, breathless, champing at the bit, covetous, craving, desiring, desirous, dying to, earnest, fervent, fervid, greedy, gung ho, hankering, heated, hot to trot, hot*, hungry*, impatient, intent, keen, longing, pining, rarin' to go, ready and willing, restive, restless, self-starting, solicitous, thirsty, vehement, voracious, warmblooded, wild, wishful, yearning, zealous |
Antonyms: |
apathetic, disinterested, dispassionate, unconcerned, uneager, unenthusiastic |
| Main Entry: | grasping |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | greedy |
Synonyms: |
acquisitive, avaricious, avid, close-fisted, covetous, desirous, extorting, extortionate, grabby, itchy, mean, miserly, niggardly, penny-pinching, penurious, prehensile, rapacious, selfish, stingy*, tightfisted, usurious, venal |
Antonyms: |
generous, unselfish |
| 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: | materialistic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | thinking mainly about physical things |
Synonyms: |
acquisitive, banausic, carnal, earthly-minded, earthy, greedy, material, mundane, object-oriented, possessive, profane, secular, sensual, temporal, terrestrial, unspiritual |
Antonyms: |
spiritual, thrifty, ungreedy |
| Main Entry: | mercenary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | greedy for money |
Synonyms: |
acquisitive, avaricious, bribable, corrupt, covetous, grabby, grasping, miserly, money-grubbing, selfish, sordid, stingy, unethical, unprincipled, unscrupulous, venal |
Antonyms: |
generous, unselfish |
| Main Entry: | possessive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | greedy |
Synonyms: |
acquisitive, avaricious, controlling, craving, desirous, dominating, grabby, grasping, hoggish, selfish |
| 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 |