piggish - 7 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | piggish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | greedy |
| Synonyms: | acquisitive, avaricious, avid, carnivorous, close, close-fisted*, covetous, craving, desirous, devouring, eager, edacious, gluttonous, grabby, grasping, hoggish*, hungry, impatient, insatiable, intemperate, itchy*, miserly, omnivorous, parsimonious, penurious, rapacious, ravenous, selfish, stingy, tight*, voracious, esurient, gobbling, gormandizing, grudging, gulping, guzzling, insatiate, niggardly, pennypinching*, prehensile, ravening, swinish, tight-fisted* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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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
| 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: | 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: | beastly |
| Part of Speech: | adverb |
| Definition: | savage; vulgar |
| Synonyms: | abominable, animal, barbarous, base, bestial, boorish, brutal, brute, carnal, coarse, cruel, degraded, depraved, disgusting, feral, foul, gluttonous, gross, inhuman, irrational, loathsome, low, monstrous, obscene, prurient, repulsive, sadistic, unclean, vile, brutish, ferine, piggish, swinish |
| Antonyms: | good, kind, nice, superior |
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| Main Entry: | self |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, noun |
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Apician, bred in the lap of luxury, brutish, cade, centered in self, cosseted, covetous, crapulous, debauched, dissolute, earthly, earthly-minded, egotistic, egotistical, epicurean, fast, full-fed, illiberal, inabstinent, indulged, intemperate, interested, licentious, luxurious, mean, mercenary, mundane, narrow-minded, nursed in the lap of luxury, pampered, paphian, piggish, self-indulgent, self-interested, self-seeking, selfish, sensual, swinish, sybaritical, time-serving, ungenerous, unspiritual, venal, voluptuous, wild, worldly, worldly-minded, worldly-wise, wrapt up
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