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Avaricious synonyms
ăv'ə-rĭsh'əs
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greedy
Extremely eager or desirous for an activity or pursuit:
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  1. Extremely eager or desirous for an activity or pursuit:
  2. Intensely eager
  3. Having or showing a strong or excessive desire to acquire money or possess things, especially wishing to possess more than what one needs or deserves.
grasping
Eager for money; greedy.
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  1. Eager for money; greedy.
  2. Eager for gain; avaricious
  3. Exceedingly eager for material gain; avaricious.
covetous
Feeling, expressing, or characterized by a strong or immoderate desire for the possessions of another:
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  1. Feeling, expressing, or characterized by a strong or immoderate desire for the possessions of another:
  2. Tending to covet; greedy; avaricious
mercenary
Working or done for payment only; motivated by a desire for money or other gain; venal; greedy
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  1. Working or done for payment only; motivated by a desire for money or other gain; venal; greedy
  2. Hired for service in a foreign army.
  3. Designating a soldier serving for pay in a foreign army
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    acquisitive
    Able or disposed to make acquisitions; acquiring.
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    1. Able or disposed to make acquisitions; acquiring.
    2. Characterized by a strong desire to gain and possess.
    3. Eager to acquire; good at getting and holding wealth, etc.; grasping
    avid
    Eager and enthusiastic
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    1. Eager and enthusiastic
    2. Having an intense craving; greedy
    3. Having or marked by strong desire or craving; greedy:
    covetous
    Feeling, expressing, or characterized by a strong or immoderate desire for the possessions of another:
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    1. Feeling, expressing, or characterized by a strong or immoderate desire for the possessions of another:
    2. Tending to covet; greedy; avaricious
    grasping
    Eager for gain; avaricious
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    1. Eager for gain; avaricious
    2. Eager for money; greedy.
    3. Exceedingly eager for material gain; avaricious.
    greedy
    Extremely eager or desirous for an activity or pursuit:
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    1. Extremely eager or desirous for an activity or pursuit:
    2. Having too strong a desire for food and drink; gluttonous; voracious
    3. Having or showing a strong or excessive desire to acquire money or possess things, especially wishing to possess more than what one needs or deserves.
    hungry
    Experiencing a desire or need for food.
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    1. Experiencing a desire or need for food.
    2. Feeling, having, or showing hunger
    3. Extremely desirous; avid:
    grabby
    (Informal) Grasping; avaricious
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    1. (Informal) Grasping; avaricious
    2. Tending to grab especially rudely or needily
    3. Acquisitive or greedy.
    Find another word for avaricious. In this page you can discover 15 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for avaricious, like: greedy, grasping, covetous, mercenary, greedy, See syn. study at, acquisitive, avid, covetous, grasping and greedy.

    Sentence Examples

    • He showed indeed none of the avaricious temper so common among the politicians of the time.

    • Though probably not personally avaricious, he was justly accused of nepotism.

    • He promoted navigation and commerce, but was avaricious and deceitful.

    • I have been no avaricious oppressor of the people.

    • It is clear from Guicciardini's autobiographical memoirs that he was ambitious, calculating, avaricious and power-loving from his earliest years; and in Spain he had no more than an opportunity of studying on a large scale those political vices which already ruled the minor potentates of Italy.

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