Another word for greedy
greedy
modif.
Avaricious
avid, grasping, rapacious, selfish, miserly, parsimonious, close, close-fisted, tight, tight-fisted, niggardly, exploitative, grudging, sordid, mercenary, illiberal, stingy, covetous, penurious, acquisitive, pennypinching*.
Antonyms generous*, munificent, bountiful.
Gluttonous
rapacious, swinish, voracious, devouring, hoggish, ravening, ravenous, omnivorous, carnivorous, insatiate, gorging, belly-worshiping, surfeiting, crapulous, intemperate, gormandizing, guzzling, gobbling, gulping, selfish, indulging one's appetites.
Antonyms ascetic*, fasting, abstemious.
greedy implies an insatiable desire to possess or acquire something to an amount inordinately beyond what one needs or deserves and is the broadest of the terms compared here; avaricious stresses greed for money or riches and often connotes miserliness; grasping suggests an unscrupulous eagerness for gain that manifests itself in a seizing upon every opportunity to get what one desires; acquisitive stresses the exertion of effort in acquiring or accumulating wealth or material possessions to an excessive amount; covetous implies greed for something that another person rightfully possesses
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Another word for greedy
Having a strong urge to obtain or possess something, especially material wealth, in quantity:
acquisitive, avaricious, avid, covetous, grasping, hungry. (Informal) grabby. See desire, giveWanting to eat or drink more than one can reasonably consume:
edacious, gluttonous, hoggish, piggish, ravenous, voracious. See desire, ingestionHaving an insatiable appetite for an activity or pursuit:
avid, edacious, gluttonous, omnivorous, rapacious, ravenous, unappeasable, voracious. See desire
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