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| 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: | mercenary |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who fights, kills for money |
| Synonyms: | hireling, slave, soldier of fortune, warrior, legionnaire, merc, professional soldier |
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| Main Entry: | adventurer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who takes risks |
| Synonyms: | charlatan, daredevil, entrepreneur, explorer, gambler, globetrotter, hero, heroine, madcap, mercenary, opportunist, pioneer, pirate, romantic, speculator, swashbuckler, traveler, wanderer, fortune-hunter, stunt person, venturer, voyager |
| 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
| Main Entry: | fighter |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person engaged in hostile encounter |
| Synonyms: | GI, aggressor, antagonist, assailant, belligerent, boxer, bully, champion, combatant, competitor, contestant, gladiator, heavy*, mercenary, militant, opponent, pugilist, punching bag*, rival, soldier, warrior, wildcat*, battler, brawler, bruiser, contender, disputant, duelist, jouster, person-at-arms, scrapper, serviceperson, slugger, tanker, warlord |
| Antonyms: | peacemaker |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | guerrilla |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bushfighter |
| Synonyms: | irregular, mercenary, soldier of fortune, terrorist, commando, freedom fighter, professional soldier, resistance fighter, underground fighter |
| Notes: | guerrilla is from a Spanish diminutive of guerra 'war' and refers to a soldier of an independent armed resistance force; gorilla is the ape |
| Main Entry: | selfish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | thinking only of oneself |
| Synonyms: | egocentric, egotistic, greedy*, mean, mercenary, miserly, narcissistic, narrow, narrow-minded, parsimonious, prejudiced, self-centered, self-indulgent, stingy, ungenerous, egoistic, egoistical, egomaniacal, egotistical, hoggish, out for number one, self-interested, self-seeking, wrapped up in oneself |
| Antonyms: | kind, unselfish, caring |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | soldier |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person serving in military |
| Synonyms: | GI*, cadet, conscript, fighter, guard, guerrilla, gunner, infantry, marine, mercenary, officer, pilot, private, rank, recruit, scout, soldier, veteran, volunteer, warmonger, warrior, Green Beret, airforce member, cavalryperson, commando, draftee, enlisted person, infantryperson, military person, musketeer, paratrooper, selectee, serviceperson, soldier-at-arms, trooper |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | unethical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dishonest, immoral |
| Synonyms: | cheating, corrupt, crooked, dirty*, dishonorable, disreputable, fake, fishy*, flimflam*, fly-by-night*, illegal, improper, mercenary, scam*, shady*, sharp*, slick*, slippery*, sneaky*, two-faced*, two-timing, underhand, unfair, unprincipled, unprofessional, unscrupulous, wrong, dirty-dealing, double-crossing |
| Antonyms: | ethical, good, honest, moral, right, upright |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | unscrupulous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | immoral |
| Synonyms: | arrant, base, corrupt, crafty, crooked, deceitful, degraded, degrading, disgraceful, dishonest, dishonorable, illegal, improper, mercenary, perfidious, petty, questionable, recreant, ruthless, scandalous, scheming, selfish, shady, shameless, shifty, sinister, slippery, sly, two-faced*, unconscionable, underhand, underhanded, unethical, unfair, unprincipled, unworthy, venal, wicked, wrongful, casuistic, conscienceless, exploitative, low-down*, self-seeking, unconscientious |
| Antonyms: | ethical, good, moral, scrupulous, principled |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | venal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bribable, corruptible |
| Synonyms: | bent*, corrupt, crooked, dishonest, double-dealing, immoral, mercenary, padded, unethical, unprincipled, unprofessional, unscrupulous, amoral, buyable, conscienceless, on the take, purchasable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | soldier of fortune |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hired soldier |
| Synonyms: | freelance, hired gun, hireling, mercenary, condottiere, free companion, legionnaire, professional soldier, soldier for hire |
| Main Entry: | corrupt |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dishonest |
| Synonyms: | base, bent, crooked, debauched, double-dealing, extortionate, faithless, fast and loose, fixed, foul, fraudulent, inconstant, iniquitous, knavish, mercenary, nefarious, open, padded, perfidious, reprobate, rotten, shady, snide, tainted, treacherous, two-faced, underhanded, unethical, unfaithful, unprincipled, unscrupulous, untrustworthy, venal, bribable, exploiting, gone to the dogs, on the take, praetorian, profiteering, racket up, suborned, wide open |
| Antonyms: | decent, honest, honorable, pure, trustworthy, truthful, upright, principled, uncorrupt |
| Main Entry: | mean |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ungenerous |
| Synonyms: | close, greedy, mercenary, miserly, parsimonious, penny-pinching*, penurious, rapacious, selfish, stingy, tight, mingy, niggard, scrimpy, tight-fisted |
| Antonyms: | generous, kind, unselfish |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | commercial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | intended for financial gain |
| Synonyms: | Wall Street*, exploited, investment, materialistic, mercenary, monetary, pecuniary, venal, for profit, money-making, profitmaking |
| Antonyms: | noncommercial, not-for-profit |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rotten |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dishonest, immoral |
| Synonyms: | bent, corrupt, crooked, debauched, deceitful, defiled, degenerate, depraved, dishonorable, disloyal, faithless, filthy, flagitious, impure, mercenary, nefarious, perfidious, perverse, soiled, tainted, treacherous, unclean, untrustworthy, venal, vicious, villainous, bribable, contaminated, dirtied, polluted, sullied, vitiated |
| Antonyms: | decent, good, honest, moral, trustworthy, uncorrupt |
| Main Entry: | shabby |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | despicable |
| Synonyms: | beggarly, cheap, contemptible, dirty, disgraceful, dishonorable, disreputable, ignoble, ignominious, inconsiderate, inglorious, low, mean, mercenary, miserly, rotten, selfish, shady, shameful, shoddy, sordid, sorry, stingy, thoughtless, unkind, unworthy, despisable, low-down, scummy |
| Antonyms: | honorable, respectable |
| Main Entry: | narrow |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cheap, stingy |
| Synonyms: | avaricious, close, mean, mercenary, tight*, ungenerous, scrimpy |
| Antonyms: | generous, spendthrift, wasting |
* = 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: | 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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