greedy
excessively or inordinately desirous of wealth, profit, etc.; avaricious: the greedy owners of the company.
having a strong or great desire for food or drink.
keenly desirous; eager (often followed by of or for): greedy for praise.
Origin of greedy
1synonym study For greedy
Other words for greedy
Opposites for greedy
Other words from greedy
- greed·i·ly, adverb
- greed·i·ness, noun
- o·ver·greed·i·ly, adverb
- o·ver·greed·i·ness, noun
- o·ver·greed·y, adjective
- un·greed·y, adjective
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How to use greedy in a sentence
The answer may be that animals are greedy: they need a lot of oxygen to grow big and complicated.
Why Did It Take So Long For Complex Life To Evolve On Earth? Blame Oxygen. | Matthew R. Francis | November 2, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTOnly the greedy say that greed is good and there is no shaming of the shameless.
Too Big to Jail: Confessions of a Goldman Sachs Brat | Michael Daly | June 26, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBut this soft and greedy subversive organelle is no match for the brilliance of our scientists!
We must arrest and return their fugitive slaves with greedy pleasure.
From Las Vegas to Georgia, the NRA Has Created a Monster | Cliff Schecter | June 9, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe Silicon Valley tech firms tend to be every bit as cutthroat and greedy as any capitalist enterprise before it.
Silicon Valley’s Giants Are Just Gilded Age Tycoons in Techno-Utopian Clothes | Joel Kotkin | April 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
The mother played her accompaniments and at the same time watched her daughter with greedy admiration and nervous apprehension.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories | Kate ChopinWhenever he visited the garden he told everybody that he should never come there again because Grandfather Mole was too greedy.
The Tale of Grandfather Mole | Arthur Scott BaileyThough this may be accounted for by the fact that he was a greedy reader—of any and every thing which came his way.
Dorothy at Skyrie | Evelyn RaymondMadame Malmaison knew it also, but the hard look on her greedy face did not soften.
The Weight of the Crown | Fred M. WhiteWith a mind greedy after all manner of information, he had not omitted to inquire closely into ecclesiastical matters.
The English Church in the Eighteenth Century | Charles J. Abbey and John H. Overton
British Dictionary definitions for greedy
/ (ˈɡriːdɪ) /
excessively desirous of food or wealth, esp in large amounts; voracious
(postpositive foll by for) eager (for): a man greedy for success
Origin of greedy
1Derived forms of greedy
- greedily, adverb
- greediness, noun
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