Thesaurus:greedy

Thesaurus

greedy

English

Adjective

Sense: excessively eager to obtain and possess

Synonyms

• acquisitive
• avaricious
• cormorant (attributively, obsolete)
• covetous
• edacious
• esurient
• grasping
• greedy
• miserable (obsolete)
• piggish
• rapacious
• selfish
• sordid
• sharp-set
• voracious    [⇒ thesaurus]

Hyponyms

• voracious    [⇒ thesaurus]

See also

• stingy    [⇒ thesaurus]
• frugal    [⇒ thesaurus]
• greed    [⇒ thesaurus]
• glutton    [⇒ thesaurus]

Further reading

• “817A. greed” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “greedy” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.