greedy

I

(Roget's IV) modif.

1. [Avaricious]

Syn. avid, grasping, rapacious, selfish, miserly, parsimonious, close, close-fisted, tight, tight-fisted, niggardly, exploitative, grudging, sordid, mercenary, illiberal, stingy, covetous, penurious, acquisitive, pennypinching*.

Ant. generous*, munificent, bountiful.

2. [Gluttonous]

Syn. 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.

Ant. ascetic*, fasting, abstemious.

Syn.- 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

II

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) a.

avaricious, covetous, *grabby, *piggish, *hoggish, acquisitive, gluttonous, rapacious, insatiable, grasping, hungry, selfish, stingy.

ANT.: generous, giving, charitable

III

(Roget's Thesaurus II) adjective 1. Having a strong urge to obtain or possess something, especially material wealth, in quantity: acquisitive, avaricious, avid, covetous, grasping, hungry. Informal: grabby. See DESIRE, GIVE. 2. Wanting to eat or drink more than one can reasonably consume: edacious, gluttonous, hoggish, piggish, ravenous, voracious. See DESIRE, INGESTION. 3. Having an insatiable appetite for an activity or pursuit: avid, edacious, gluttonous, omnivorous, rapacious, ravenous, unappeasable, voracious. See DESIRE.