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Synonyms:
- eager, amorous, itching, grudging, green, avid, invidious, anxious, hankering, coveting, passionate, begrudging, in need of something, greedy, thirsting, longing, desire, desirous, lusting, fond, impatient, green-eyed, mercenary, needful, moneygrubbing, envious, prehensile, avaricious, discontented, hungry, acquisitive, jaundiced, study at greedy, be dying for something/to do something, jealous, rapacious, expectant, keen, urgent, in the hope that/of, yearning, ardent, grasping, grabby, give, resentful, dissatisfied, hopeful, selfish
Examples:
- - This younger Stubmore he knew to be a bustling, officious man of business, somewhat greedy and covetous, but withal somewhat weak of purpose, good- natured in the main, and with a little lukewarm kindness for Gabriel, as a quondam fellow- pupil. - "Lucretia, Volume 6.", Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- - Who so is covetous let him know that his heart is poor. - "In Luck at Last", Walter Besant
- - Charles directed that a general assembly of the planters' representatives be summoned to deal with his proposals, and Governor West and the Council ordered an Assembly to meet on March 10, 1628. The Assembly thanked the King for prohibiting the importation of Spanish tobacco into the English market, but cried that they would be at the mercy of covetous individuals in England if a monopoly on Virginia tobacco was allowed. - "Virginia Under Charles I And Cromwell, 1625-1660", Wilcomb E. Washburn
Antonyms:
- content, handsome, well-meaning, altruistic, moderate, kind, generous, undesiring, munificent, liberal, freehanded, prodigal, magnanimous, kindhearted, wasteful, benevolent, greathearted, temperate, openhanded, satisfied, restrained, selfless, charitable, free, openhearted, sated, unsparing, unselfish, controlled, bountiful, unacquisitive, undesirous, bounteous
