About The Word Avaricious
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Avaricious
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What's The Definition Of Avaricious?
[adj] 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"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Avaricious: acquisitive | covetous | grabby | grasping | greedy | prehensile Related Terms | Find terms related to 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 | tightfisted | tight-fisted | unappeasable | unappeased | ungenerous | unquenchable | unsated | unsatisfied | unslakeable | unslaked | venal | voracious See Also | Avaricious In Webster's Dictionary \Av`a*ri"cious\, a. [Cf. F. avaricieux.]
Actuated by avarice; greedy of gain; immoderately desirous of
accumulating property.
Syn: Greedy; stingy; rapacious; griping; sordid; close.
Usage: {Avaricious}, {Covetous}, {Parsimonious}, {Penurious},
{Miserly}, {Niggardly}. The avaricious eagerly grasp
after it at the expense of others, though not of
necessity with a design to save, since a man may be
covetous and yet a spendthrift. The penurious,
parsimonious, and miserly save money by disgraceful
self-denial, and the niggardly by meanness in their
dealing with others. We speak of persons as covetous
in getting, avaricious in retaining, parsimonious in
expending, penurious or miserly in modes of living,
niggardly in dispensing. -- {Av`a*ri"cious*ly}, adv.
-- {Av`a*ri"cious*ness}, n.
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