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avaricious
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective avaricious has 1 sense
- avaricious(s = adj.all) covetous, grabby, grasping, greedy, prehensile - immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth; "they are avaricious and will do anything for money"; "casting covetous eyes on his neighbor's fields"; "a grasping old miser"; "grasping commercialism"; "greedy for money and power"; "grew richer and greedier"; "prehensile employers stingy with raises for their employees" Derived forms noun avarice1, noun avarice2, noun avariciousness1
CIDE DICTIONARY
avaricious, a. [Cf. F. avaricieux.].
Actuated by avarice; greedy of gain; immoderately desirous of accumulating property. [1913 Webster]
Syn. -- Greedy; stingy; rapacious; griping; sordid; close.
THESAURUS
avaricious
a hog for, acquisitive, all-devouring, avid, bottomless, cheap, close, closefisted, coveting, covetous, devouring, esurient, gluttonous, gobbling, grabby, grasping, greedy, hardfisted, hoggish, illiberal, insatiable, insatiate, limitless, mean, mercenary, miserly, money-hungry, money-mad, near, niggardly, omnivorous, overgreedy, parsimonious, penny-pinching, penurious, piggish, pinchfisted, pinching, quenchless, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, save-all, selfish, slakeless, sordid, stingy, swinish, tight, tight-fisted, tightfisted, unappeasable, unappeased, ungenerous, unquenchable, unsated, unsatisfied, unslakeable, unslaked, venal, voraciousROGET THESAURUS
avaricious
Gluttony
N gluttony, greed, avarice, greediness, voracity, epicurism, good living, high living, edacity, gulosity, crapulence, guttling, guzzling, pantophagy, good cheer, blow out, feast, gastronomy, batterie de cuisine, epicure, bon vivant, gourmand, glutton, cormorant, hog, belly god, Apicius, gastronome, gourmet, v, gormandize, gorge, overgorge, overeat oneself, engorge, eat one's fill, cram, stuff, guttle, guzzle, bolt, devour, gobble up, gulp, raven, eat out of house and home, have the stomach of an ostrich, play a good knife and fork, pamper, gluttonous, greedy, gormandizing, edacious, omnivorous, crapulent, swinish, avaricious, selfish, pampered, overfed, overgorged, jejunus raro stomachus vulgaria temnit.Greed
N greed, covetousness, ravenousness, venality, avidity, cupidity, acquisitiveness (acquisition), desire, greed, greediness, avarice, avidity, rapacity, extortion, selfishness, auri sacra fames, grasping, craving, canine appetite, rapacity, greedy, avaricious, covetous, acquisitive, grasping, rapacious, lickerish, greedy as a hog, overeager, voracious, ravenous, ravenous as a wolf, openmouthed, extortionate, exacting, sordid, alieni appetens, insatiable, insatiate, unquenchable, quenchless, omnivorous.Parsimony
N parsimony, parcity, parsimoniousness, stinginess, stint, illiberality, tenacity, avarice, greed, miser, niggard, churl, screw, skinflint, crib, codger, muckworm, scrimp, lickpenny, hunks, curmudgeon, Harpagon, harpy, extortioner, Jew, usurer, Hessian, pinch fist, pinch penny, parsimonious, penurious, stingy, miserly, mean, shabby, peddling, scrubby, penny wise, near, niggardly, close, fast handed, close handed, strait handed, close fisted, hard fisted, tight fisted, tight, sparing, chary, grudging, griping, illiberal, ungenerous, churlish, hidebound, sordid, mercenary, venal, covetous, usurious, avaricious, greedy, extortionate, rapacious, with a sparing hand, desunt inopioe multa avaritiae omnia, hoards after hoards his rising raptures fill, the unsunn'd heaps of miser's treasures.
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