| 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: | greed |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
avaricious, chary, cheeseparing, churlish, close, closefisted, closehanded, covetous, extortionate, fasthanded, greedy, griping, grudging, hardfisted, hidebound, illiberal, mean, mercenary, mingy, miserly, near, niggardly, parsimonious, peddling, penny, rapacious, scrubby, shabby, sneckdrawn, sordid, sparing, stingy, straithanded, tight, tight, usurious, venal
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| Main Entry: | appetite |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | desire for food, worldly goods |
Synonyms: |
appetence, appetency, appetition, big eyes, craving, demand, fondness, gluttony, greed, hankering, hunger, inclination, itch, liking, longing, lust, passion, penchant, proclivity, propensity, ravenousness, relish, soft spot, stomach, sweet tooth, taste, thirst, urge, voracity, weakness, willingness, yearning, yen, zeal, zest |
Antonyms: |
antipathy, aversion, disgust, dislike, distaste, hatred, indifference, loathing, repulsion, revulsion |
| Main Entry: | desire |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | want, longing |
Synonyms: |
admiration, ambition, appetite, ardor, aspiration, attraction, avidity, concupiscence, covetousness, craving, craze, cupidity, devotion, doting, eagerness, fancy, fascination, fervor, fondness, frenzy, greed, hankering*, hunger, inclination, infatuation, itch, lasciviousness, lechery, libido, liking, love, lust, mania, motive, need, passion, predilection, proclivity, propensity, rapaciousness, rapture, ravenousness, relish, salacity, solicitude, thirst, urge, voracity, will, wish, yearning |
Antonyms: |
aversion, disgust, dislike, distaste, hate, hatred, repulsion |
| Main Entry: | hunger |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | appetite for food, other desire |
Synonyms: |
a stomach for, ache, appetence, appetency, appetition, big eyes, bottomless pit, craving, desire, emptiness, esurience, eyes for, famine, famishment, gluttony, greed, greediness, hungriness, longing, lust, mania, munchies, ravenousness, starvation, sweet tooth, vacancy, void, voracity, want, yearning, yen |
Antonyms: |
satiation, satisfaction |
| Main Entry: | lust |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | appetite, passion |
Synonyms: |
animalism, aphrodisia, appetence, appetition, avidity, carnality, concupiscence, covetousness, craving, cupidity, desire, eroticism, excitement, fervor, greed, hunger, itch, lasciviousness, lechery, lewdness, libido, licentiousness, longing, prurience, pruriency, salaciousness, salacity, sensualism, sensuality, thirst, urge, wantonness, weakness, yen |
Antonyms: |
chastity, disenchantment, disgust |
| Main Entry: | covetousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | avarice |
Synonyms: |
avariciousness, cupidity, greed |
| 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: | selfishness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | self-regard |
Synonyms: |
greed, self-centeredness, self-indulgence, self-worship, stinginess |
| Main Entry: | voracity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ravenousness |
Synonyms: |
edacity, gluttony, greed, greediness, rapaciousness, rapacity, voraciousness |