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| Main Entry: | covetous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | greedy; very desirous |
| Synonyms: | acquisitive, avaricious, avid, eager, envious, gluttonous, grasping, green-eyed*, itchy*, jealous, keen, mercenary, rapacious, ravenous, selfish, voracious, yearning, close-fisted, ensurient, grabby, grudging, hogging, piggish, prehensile, swinish |
| Antonyms: | benevolent, generous, giving |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Main Entry: | acquisitive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | eager to obtain knowledge or things |
| Synonyms: | avaricious, avid, covetous, demanding, desirous, grasping, greedy, predatory, rapacious, grabbing, grabby, prehensile |
| Main Entry: | avaricious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | greedy |
| Synonyms: | covetous, gluttonous, predatory, rapacious, selfish, tight*, hoarding, money-grubbing, pleonectic |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | avid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | enthusiastic |
| Synonyms: | ardent, avaricious, breathless, covetous, desirous, devoted, eager, fanatical, fervent, grasping, greedy, hungry, impatient, insatiable, intense, keen, passionate, rapacious, ravenous, thirsty, voracious, zealous, athirst, dying to, gotta have |
| Antonyms: | dispassionate, indifferent, unenthusiastic |
| 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, ready, stimulated, willing, wishful, wishing, yearning, prehensile, turned on |
| Antonyms: | reluctant, unenthusiastic, unambitious, unhopeful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | envious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | jealous, resentful |
| Synonyms: | aspiring, covetous, craving, desiring, desirous, distrustful, grasping, greedy, green-eyed*, hankering, invidious, jaundiced, malicious, spiteful, suspicious, watchful, wishful, yearning, appetent, begrudging, coveting, fain, green with envy, grudging, longing for, umbrageous |
| Antonyms: | comfortable, confident, content, kind, pleased, unenvious |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | gluttonous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | voracious |
| Synonyms: | covetous, devouring, greedy, gross, insatiable, omnivorous, prodigious, rapacious, ravenous, starved, starving, edacious, gorging, gourmandizing, hoggish, never full, piggish, piggy, ravening, sating, unquenchable, wolfish |
| Main Entry: | grasping |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | greedy |
| Synonyms: | acquisitive, avaricious, avid, covetous, desirous, extortionate, itchy*, mean, miserly, penny-pinching*, penurious, rapacious, selfish, stingy*, tightfisted*, venal, close-fisted, extorting, grabby, niggardly, prehensile, usurious |
| Antonyms: | generous, unselfish |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | greedy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | desiring excessively |
| Synonyms: | acquisitive, avaricious, avid, carnivorous, close, covetous, craving, desirous, devouring, eager, gluttonous, grasping, hungry, impatient, insatiable, intemperate, itchy*, miserly, omnivorous, parsimonious, penurious, rapacious, ravenous, selfish, stingy, tight*, voracious, close-fisted, edacious, esurient, gobbling, gormandizing, grabby, grudging, gulping, guzzling, hoggish, insatiate, niggardly, pennypinching, piggish, prehensile, ravening, swinish, tight-fisted |
| Antonyms: | abstemious, benevolent, charitable, extravagant, generous, liberal, philanthropic |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hungry |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | starving; desirous |
| Synonyms: | avid, carnivorous, covetous, craving, eager, empty, famished, greedy, hankering, hollow, keen, omnivorous, rapacious, ravenous, starved, unfilled, unsatisfied, voracious, yearning, athirst, could eat a horse, edacious, esurient, famishing, flying light, got the munchies, hoggish, hungered, insatiate, on empty stomach, piggish |
| Antonyms: | full, replete, satisfied, stuffed, satiated |
| Main Entry: | jealous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | desirous; wary |
| Synonyms: | anxious, apprehensive, attentive, covetous, demanding, doubting, envious, grasping, green-eyed, guarded, intolerant, invidious, jaundiced, possessive, protective, questioning, rival, skeptical, solicitous, suspicious, vigilant, watchful, zealous, begrudging, emulous, envying, grabby, grudging, mistrustful, monopolizing, possessory, resentful |
| Notes: | jealous means envious or fearful of being replaced by a rival; zealous means marked by active interest and enthusiasm |
| Antonyms: | confident, content, satisfied, trusting, unresentful |
| Main Entry: | mercenary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | greedy for money |
| Synonyms: | acquisitive, avaricious, corrupt, covetous, grasping, miserly, selfish, sordid, stingy, unethical, unprincipled, unscrupulous, venal, bribable, grabby, money-grubbing |
| Antonyms: | generous, unselfish |
| Main Entry: | miserly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | greedy, stingy |
| Synonyms: | abject, avaricious, beggarly, churlish, close, covetous, grasping, ignoble, illiberal, mean, parsimonious, penny-pinching*, penurious, skinflint*, sordid, tightfisted*, ungenerous, cheapskate, close-fisted |
| Antonyms: | generous, giving, liberal |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ravenous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very hungry; desirous |
| Synonyms: | avaricious, covetous, devouring, empty, famished, ferocious, gluttonous, grasping, greedy, insatiable, omnivorous, predatory, rapacious, starved, starving, voracious, could eat a horse, edacious, insatiate, ravening, starved to death, wolfish |
| Antonyms: | full, satisfied |
| Main Entry: | sordid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dirty, bad, low |
| Synonyms: | abject, avaricious, base, black, calculated, corrupt, covetous, debauched, degenerate, degraded, despicable, disreputable, dowdy, filthy, foul, grasping, grubby, ignoble, impure, mean, mercenary, miserable, miserly, nasty, poor, seedy, selfish, servile, shabby, shameful, sleazy, slovenly, slum, small, small-minded, squalid, unclean, ungenerous, venal, vicious, vile, wretched, low-down, scurvy, self-seeking, slummy, uncleanly |
| Antonyms: | good, honorable, reputable, wonderful |
| Main Entry: | stingy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | penny-pinching, averse to spending money |
| Synonyms: | acquisitive, avaricious, chary, cheap, chintzy*, churlish, close, covetous, economical, extortionate, frugal, grasping, greedy, ignoble, illiberal, mean, miserly, narrow, near, parsimonious, penurious, petty, rapacious, saving, selfish, sordid, sparing, thrifty, tightfisted, uncharitable, ungenerous, close-fisted, costive, curmudgeonly, grudging, ironfisted, pennywise, pinchpenny, scrimping, scurvy, skimping, ungiving |
| Antonyms: | generous, spendthrift, wasteful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | voracious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very hungry, greedy |
| Synonyms: | avid, covetous, devouring, empty, gluttonous, grasping, gross, insatiable, omnivorous, prodigious, rapacious, ravenous, starved, starving, uncontrolled, dog-hungry, edacious, gorging, piggy, ravening, sating, starved to death, unquenchable |
| Antonyms: | satisfied, quenched |
| Main Entry: | worldly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sophisticated, materialistic |
| Synonyms: | avaricious, blasé, callous, cool*, cosmopolitan, covetous, disenchanted, grasping, greedy, hardened, knowing, practical, self-centered, selfish, unprincipled, urbane, been around, opportunistic, power-loving, uptown, worldly wise |
| Antonyms: | low, unrefined, unsophisticated |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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| Main Entry: | desire |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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Adjectives: |
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