| Main Entry: | avarice |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extreme greed |
Synonyms: |
avidity, close-fistedness, covetousness, cupidity, frugality, grabbiness, greediness, miserliness, niggardliness, parsimony, penny- pinching, penuriousness, rapacity, stinginess, thrift |
Antonyms: |
generosity, philanthropy |
| Main Entry: | cupidity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | greed, strong desire |
Synonyms: |
acquisitiveness, avarice, avariciousness, avidity, covetousness, craving, eagerness, graspingness, greediness, hunger, infatuation, itching, longing, lust, passion, possessiveness, rapaciousness, rapacity, voracity, yearning |
Antonyms: |
dislike, distaste |
| Main Entry: | frugality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | economizing |
Synonyms: |
avarice, avariciousness, carefulness, conservation, economy, forehandedness, good management, miserliness, moderation, niggardliness, parsimoniousness, parsimony, penuriousness, providence, prudence, saving, scrimping, stinginess, thrift, thriftiness |
Antonyms: |
generosity, lavishness, wastefulness |
| Main Entry: | greed |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overwhelming desire for more |
Synonyms: |
acquisitiveness, avarice, avidity, covetousness, craving, cupidity, eagerness, edacity, esurience, excess, gluttony, gormandizing, graspingness, hunger, indulgence, insatiableness, intemperance, longing, piggishness, rapacity, ravenousness, selfishness, swinishness, the gimmies, voracity |
Antonyms: |
benevolence, generosity |
| Main Entry: | meanness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | the quality of being mean |
Synonyms: |
abjection, avarice, baseness, beastliness, churlishness, closeness, contemptibleness, corruptness, covetousness, debasement, degeneracy, degradation, disrepute, frugality, greed, ill-temper, infamy, iniquity, knavishness, lowness, malice, malignity, miserliness, parsimony, pettiness, rapacity, shamelessness, smallmindedness, sordidness, stinginess, unkindness, unscrupulousness, unworthiness, wickedness |
Antonyms: |
generosity, nobility, worthiness |
| Main Entry: | rapacity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | greed |
Synonyms: |
avarice, covetousness, greediness, voracity |
| Main Entry: | avidity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | eagerness |
Synonyms: |
avarice, cupidity, enthusiasm, fervor, greediness, intense desire, longing |
Antonyms: |
apathy, indifference |
| Main Entry: | mammon |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wealth as evil |
Synonyms: |
avarice, gain, possessions, riches, wealth |
| Main Entry: | rapacity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | greed |
Synonyms: |
avarice, covetousness, cupidity, greediness, rapaciousness, thievery, voracity |
Antonyms: |
generosity |
| Main Entry: | acquisitiveness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | greed |
Synonyms: |
avarice, avariciousness, avidity, covetousness, cupidity, greediness, possessiveness |