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| Main Entry: | greed |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overwhelming desire for more |
| Synonyms: | avarice, avidity, covetousness, craving, cupidity, eagerness, excess, hunger, indulgence, intemperance, longing, rapacity, selfishness, voracity, acquisitiveness, edacity, esurience, gluttony, gormandizing, graspingness, insatiableness, piggishness, ravenousness, swinishness, the gimmies |
| Antonyms: | benevolence, generosity |
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| 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: | craving, demand, fondness, greed, hankering, hunger, inclination, itch*, liking, longing, lust, passion, penchant, proclivity, propensity, relish, soft spot*, stomach, sweet tooth*, taste, thirst, urge, voracity, weakness, willingness, yearning, yen, zeal, zest, appetence, appetency, appetition, big eyes, gluttony, ravenousness |
| Antonyms: | antipathy, aversion, disgust, dislike, distaste, hatred, indifference, loathing, repulsion, revulsion |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hunger |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | appetite for food, other desire |
| Synonyms: | ache, bottomless pit*, craving, desire, emptiness, famine, greed, longing, lust, mania, starvation, sweet tooth*, vacancy, void, voracity, want, yearning, yen, a stomach for, appetence, appetency, appetition, big eyes, esurience, eyes for, famishment, gluttony, greediness, hungriness, munchies, ravenousness |
| Antonyms: | satisfaction, satiation |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | lust |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | appetite, passion |
| Synonyms: | avidity, concupiscence, covetousness, craving, cupidity, desire, eroticism, excitement, fervor, greed, hunger, itch, lasciviousness, lechery, lewdness, libido, longing, thirst, urge, weakness, yen, animalism, aphrodisia, appetence, appetition, carnality, licentiousness, prurience, pruriency, salaciousness, salacity, sensualism, sensuality, wantonness |
| Antonyms: | chastity, disgust, disenchantment |
| Main Entry: | covetousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | avarice |
| Synonyms: | cupidity, greed, avariciousness |
| Main Entry: | selfishness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | self-regard |
| Synonyms: | greed, self-indulgence, self-centeredness, self-worship, stinginess |
| Main Entry: | voracity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ravenousness |
| Synonyms: | greed, rapacity, edacity, gluttony, greediness, rapaciousness, voraciousness |
| 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, rapture, relish, solicitude, thirst, urge, voracity, will, wish, yearning, rapaciousness, ravenousness, salacity |
| Antonyms: | aversion, disgust, dislike, distaste, hate, hatred, repulsion |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | meanness |
| Part of Speech: | noun1 |
| Definition: | the quality of being mean |
| Synonyms: | avarice, baseness, closeness, covetousness, debasement, degeneracy, degradation, disrepute, frugality, greed, infamy, iniquity, malice, parsimony, rapacity, wickedness, abjection, beastliness, churlishness, contemptibleness, corruptness, ill-temper, knavishness, lowness, malignity, miserliness, pettiness, shamelessness, smallmindedness, sordidness, stinginess, unkindness, unscrupulousness, unworthiness |
| Antonyms: | generosity, nobility, worthiness |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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