What is another word for avaricious?
968 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ ˌavəɹˈɪʃəs], [ ˌavəɹˈɪʃəs], [ ˌa_v_ə_ɹ_ˈɪ_ʃ_ə_s]
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Similar words for avaricious:
- acquisitive (adjective)
- all (adjective)
- avaricious (adjective)
- avid (adjective)
- covetous (adjective)
- economical (adjective)
- extortionate (adjective)
- grabby (adjective)
- grasping (adjective)
- greedy (adjective)
- hard-fisted (adjective)
- hoggish (adjective)
- mercenary (adjective)
- miserly (adjective)
- narrow (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- parsimonious (adjective)
- penurious (adjective)
- rapacious (adjective)
- ravenous (adjective)
- remorseless (adjective)
- sordid (adjective)
- sparing (adjective)
- stingy (adjective)
- worldly (adjective)
- greedy (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- other synonyms
- corrupt
- other relevant words
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Avaricious:
adj.
• acquisitive (adjective) • all (adjective) • avaricious (adjective) • avid (adjective) • covetous (adjective)- more swinish,
- close fisted,
- more hogging,
- green eyed,
- more grudging,
- most hogging,
- most ensurient,
- most yearning,
- greeneyed,
- more yearning,
- most grudging,
- most swinish,
- more ensurient.
- unwasteful,
- meager,
- timesaving,
- on the rims,
- prudential,
- penny-wise,
- curmudgeonly,
- provident,
- money-saving,
- time-saving,
- work-saving,
- niggardly.
- money grubbing,
- un ethical,
- more money grubbing,
- most money grubbing,
- most moneygrubbing,
- un-principled,
- more moneygrubbing,
- un-ethical,
- un-scrupulous,
- more bribable,
- un principled,
- most money-grubbing,
- most bribable,
- more money-grubbing,
- un scrupulous.
- more skinflint,
- most cheapskate,
- more cheapskate,
- un-generous,
- most skinflint,
- skinflint,
- un generous.
- moneygrubbing,
- ravening,
- prehensile,
- grasping,
- pennypinching,
- Pinchpenny,
- low-down,
- opportunistic,
- Unrepenting,
- could eat a horse,
- scurvy,
- economical,
- stingy,
- parsimonious,
- slummy,
- niggard,
- pennywise,
- possessive,
- unregenerate,
- piggish,
- un-regenerate,
- cost-conscious,
- ensurient,
- power-loving,
- miserly,
- ravenous,
- rapacious,
- acquisitive,
- insatiate,
- been around,
- inhumane,
- esurient,
- covetous,
- slummier,
- starved to death,
- worldly,
- extortionate,
- bribable,
- greedy,
- uptown,
- hardfisted,
- hardbitten,
- Hard-hearted,
- money-conscious,
- lowdown,
- worldly wise,
- swinish,
- uncontrite,
- wolfish,
- Ungiving,
- sparing,
- mercenary,
- tight-fisted,
- narrow,
- sordid,
- usurious,
- Stewardly.
- most hoarding,
- un-giving,
- most ungiving,
- un-charitable,
- un charitable,
- un giving,
- more hoarding,
- most pinchpenny,
- more ungiving,
- more pinchpenny.
- un relenting,
- in sensitive,
- most unregenerate,
- un compassionate,
- more unrepenting,
- hard hearted,
- most hard-hearted,
- more hard-hearted,
- more unregenerate,
- un regenerate,
- un merciful,
- in humane,
- un-remitting,
- most uncontrite,
- in tolerant,
- more uncontrite,
- un-merciful,
- un-contrite,
- un yielding,
- un repenting,
- un-forgiving,
- most unrepenting,
- unforgiving,
- more hard hearted,
- in-humane,
- un forgiving,
- in-human,
- in-exorable,
- most hard hearted,
- un-compassionate,
- un-yielding,
- in-sensitive,
- un remitting,
- un-repenting,
- in human,
- hard bitten,
- un contrite.
- un cleaner,
- more low-down,
- dis reputable,
- slumest,
- un cleanliest,
- un cleanly,
- de graded,
- most lowdown,
- un-cleaner,
- low down,
- smallminded,
- un-cleanest,
- scurviest,
- scurvier,
- un cleanlier,
- de-graded,
- de-generate,
- un-cleanlier,
- small minded,
- more low down,
- un-cleanly,
- un-cleanliest,
- dis-reputable,
- un cleanest,
- selfseeking,
- slumer,
- un clean,
- slummiest,
- most low down,
- most low-down,
- self seeking,
- de generate,
- uncleanly,
- more lowdown.
- most cost-conscious,
- most cost conscious,
- more cost conscious,
- most money-conscious,
- money conscious,
- most stewardly,
- more cost-conscious,
- costconscious,
- more moneyconscious,
- more money conscious,
- most costconscious,
- more stewardly,
- more costconscious,
- most moneyconscious,
- more money-conscious,
- most money conscious,
- moneyconscious,
- cost conscious.
n.
• greedy (noun) • Other relevant words: (noun)Other synonyms:
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•
- avid.
- take.
- slopped,
- conclude,
- drive,
- grease one's palms,
- crummy,
- profane,
- nail down,
- unlimited,
- give way,
- submit,
- measly,
- cagey,
- closelipped,
- airless,
- self-centered,
- tube-nosed bat,
- common,
- cave in,
- cross,
- most,
- parsimony,
- cockeyed,
- egocentric,
- pitiless,
- self-involved,
- proceeds,
- throw,
- buy,
- unpitying,
- economic,
- hunger,
- debauch,
- ease up,
- direct,
- bastardly,
- make,
- hungriness,
- blind drunk,
- closing,
- swollen-headed,
- for sale,
- bring,
- entail,
- burning at the stake,
- exceptional,
- hunched,
- demoralise,
- feed,
- closemouthed,
- engage,
- consecrate,
- uncorrectable,
- light,
- tawdry,
- assume,
- epicurean,
- specialize,
- jet,
- take away,
- braggart,
- demoralize,
- pay,
- putting surface,
- stuffy,
- hoggishness,
- bent-grass,
- too-greedy,
- deal,
- robbery,
- brassy,
- specify,
- light-green,
- opportunist,
- present,
- steep,
- green-eyed,
- moneymaking,
- faithful,
- cat valium,
- contain,
- afford,
- charter,
- pushful,
- ratty,
- good,
- secular,
- fill,
- conclusion,
- rabid,
- loutish,
- funky,
- take aim,
- flashy,
- tinny,
- misfortunate,
- finish,
- meagre,
- challenging,
- gourmet,
- generate,
- dishonest,
- learn,
- tremendous,
- knack,
- bilk,
- skimp,
- impecunious,
- athirst,
- dear,
- grant,
- wretched,
- consume,
- grim,
- stooped,
- think of,
- pass on,
- guide,
- raiding,
- rapacity,
- the skinny,
- closing curtain,
- break,
- approximate,
- frugal,
- turkey cock,
- peg down,
- restless,
- self-conceited,
- establish,
- seizing,
- egoistical,
- contribute,
- scummy,
- have,
- end,
- trencherman,
- need,
- boor,
- stealing,
- portentous,
- oafish,
- look at,
- scottish,
- vitiate,
- rapaciousness,
- require,
- cock-a-hoop,
- plastered,
- round-shouldered,
- flash,
- gaudy,
- crumpled,
- take in,
- ill-humored,
- conservative,
- commit,
- grump,
- draw near,
- boastful,
- shut,
- genitive,
- ungratified,
- itch,
- genitive case,
- pin down,
- stand for,
- defile,
- unconscionable,
- squalid,
- shut down,
- bon vivant,
- surpassing,
- pitiful,
- wishing,
- woeful,
- soused,
- neandertal,
- get hold of,
- fold,
- sloshed,
- accept,
- crowing,
- piteous,
- turn over,
- moth-eaten,
- sleazy,
- think,
- gimcrack,
- lupin,
- scotch malt whiskey,
- burn,
- egotistical,
- chinchy,
- meanspirited,
- draw a bead on,
- score,
- issue,
- tidal bore,
- apply,
- gourmandizer,
- pitiable,
- unrelenting,
- viridity,
- indocile,
- thievishness,
- tike,
- tainted,
- specialise,
- olympian,
- ingest,
- dishonorable,
- greens,
- admit,
- nasty,
- conceited,
- pissed,
- park,
- longing,
- unregenerated,
- marauder,
- resent,
- super acid,
- fill up,
- demand,
- starve,
- putting green,
- colossal,
- go up,
- involve,
- gruff,
- turkey vulture,
- green river,
- hand,
- voraciousness,
- base,
- temporal,
- scarf joint,
- meagerly,
- pie-eyed,
- sacrifice,
- rent,
- hard up,
- deficiency,
- average,
- pick out,
- neanderthal,
- imply,
- low,
- tom,
- short,
- trashy,
- get,
- sharp-set,
- lead,
- scotch malt whisky,
- select,
- unreformable,
- read,
- gift,
- come together,
- bum,
- ask,
- exorbitant,
- peasant,
- soldier of fortune,
- poor,
- render,
- rigorous,
- pixilated,
- stooping,
- close up,
- lack,
- narrow-minded,
- deplorable,
- narcissistic,
- opportunism,
- founder,
- pack,
- blase,
- cheesy,
- study,
- choose,
- fall in,
- move over,
- popeyed,
- reach,
- bent grass,
- carry,
- electrocution,
- stock,
- crocked,
- subvert,
- adopt,
- stubborn,
- about,
- ending,
- shoot for,
- ill-humoured,
- prehension,
- penniless,
- fuddled,
- harpy eagle,
- boundless,
- shoot,
- subscribe to,
- occupy,
- well-nigh,
- ungovernable,
- illimitable,
- starved,
- exact,
- squiffy,
- queer,
- thrift,
- stunted,
- turkey buzzard,
- tube-nosed fruit bat,
- asymmetrical,
- approach,
- subscribe,
- unaired,
- malt whisky,
- meretricious,
- vixen,
- vain,
- pathetic,
- dirty,
- billboard,
- constrict,
- stupendous,
- claim,
- unripe,
- take up,
- punk,
- confining,
- piranha,
- sozzled,
- yen,
- piggishness,
- unripened,
- grouch,
- crusty,
- goggle-eyed,
- devote,
- cheapskate,
- privation,
- scrabbly,
- corrupted,
- crosspatch,
- besotted,
- thirst,
- beggarly,
- scrimy,
- commons,
- unsatiated,
- lease,
- spring,
- barbarian,
- paltry,
- stinting,
- predatory animal,
- aim,
- leave,
- pinched,
- dented,
- compressed,
- postulate,
- come near,
- irrepressible,
- ruthless,
- hapless,
- free-lance,
- swollen,
- goth,
- fleeceable,
- scanty,
- hawking,
- tatty,
- dope,
- exceeding,
- spoil,
- bent on,
- trust,
- cagy,
- tightlipped,
- taking hold,
- tacky,
- combustion,
- close-fitting,
- set,
- smashed,
- freelance,
- vending,
- unbounded,
- loaded,
- bourgeois,
- thwart,
- finis,
- close down,
- skinny,
- cheeseparing,
- piggy,
- boorish,
- aegir,
- big,
- train,
- avaritia,
- thievery,
- springiness,
- hateful,
- intolerant,
- foodie,
- relentless,
- deprave,
- taint,
- stern,
- fanatical,
- famished,
- return,
- execrable,
- nigh,
- lean,
- blotto,
- kick in,
- inexpensive,
- stopping point,
- payoff,
- misdirect,
- impart,
- frustrate,
- virtually,
- narrow down,
- acquire,
- closely,
- unmanageable,
- harpy bat,
- porcine,
- withdraw,
- lust,
- braggy,
- draw close,
- come on,
- unmeasured,
- parsimoniousness,
- outrageous,
- malt whiskey,
- take on,
- wet,
- sully,
- finale,
- vulturous,
- larceny,
- nearly,
- taut,
- takings,
- scots,
- in straitened circumstances,
- self-interest,
- crank,
- baffle,
- traditionalist,
- expedience,
- hope,
- suffering,
- round-backed,
- pass,
- garish,
- used to,
- flyblown,
- avariciousness,
- measureless,
- necessitate,
- wolverine,
- overjealous,
- pillage,
- mercantile,
- call for,
- mean value,
- itchiness,
- soaked,
- stringent,
- use up,
- contract,
- out to,
- last,
- convey,
- bribe,
- hold,
- foil,
- hire,
- inexorable,
- consider,
- minute,
- honey oil,
- remove,
- debase,
- dead set,
- poop,
- fast,
- intend,
- obstinate,
- yield,
- scotch whiskey,
- seamy,
- bore,
- unruly,
- unsatiable,
- timeserving,
- possessive case,
- pervert,
- deprivation,
- dedicate,
- have in mind,
- bended,
- gastronome,
- strike,
- cloud,
- film,
- shoddy,
- zealous,
- seedy,
- signify,
- greenness,
- wishful,
- wish,
- chip in,
- immature,
- snug,
- hellcat,
- secretive,
- scrawny,
- vendition,
- eagre,
- scotch whisky,
- abject,
- fanatic,
- constringe,
- envy,
- dark-green,
- loud,
- collapse,
- scrooge,
- conduct,
- tom turkey,
- thievish,
- greenish,
- stint,
- gullible,
- bragging,
- open,
- almost,
- leafy vegetable,
- theft,
- worldly-minded,
- self-aggrandising,
- hang,
- tyke,
- stiff.
- tightfisted,
- predator,
- harpy,
- crooked,
- grabber,
- omnivorous,
- cheese-paring,
- chintzy,
- unappeased,
- piratical,
- corruptible,
- limitless,
- envious,
- bent,
- Griping,
- desirous,
- Pinching,
- avarice,
- raptorial,
- egotistic,
- gobbler,
- devouring,
- cupidity,
- green,
- overambitious,
- openmouthed,
- ungenerous,
- ambitious,
- lupine,
- want,
- gourmand,
- larcenous,
- mingy,
- accustomed to,
- looting,
- pleonectic,
- crave,
- begrudge,
- aspire,
- Robbing,
- near,
- Lickerish,
- overgreedy,
- Slakeless,
- cormorant,
- vulturine,
- skimpy,
- self-indulgent,
- purchasable,
- covet,
- miser,
- epicure,
- vulture,
- peddling,
- scrubby,
- hyena,
- eager,
- egoistic,
- all-devouring,
- uncontrollable,
- bribeable,
- greediness,
- churl,
- prodigious,
- uncontrolled,
- craving,
- unsated,
- close-fisted,
- corrupt,
- dishonourable,
- covetousness,
- burning,
- self-centred,
- predaceous,
- quenchless,
- Self-interested,
- unappeasable,
- closefisted,
- chary,
- voracious,
- itching,
- overzealous,
- self-aggrandizing,
- mean,
- Hard-fisted,
- hidebound,
- scarf,
- unprincipled,
- yearning,
- hankering,
- scant,
- self-serving,
- shabby,
- Despoiling,
- pushy,
- churlish,
- thieving,
- Simoniacal,
- marauding,
- hyaena,
- unsatisfied,
- edacious,
- jealous,
- penurious,
- Liquorish,
- Gobbling,
- costive,
- bottomless,
- plundering,
- greed,
- unquenchable,
- miserable,
- buzzard,
- materialistic,
- money-hungry,
- buyable,
- grudging,
- Coveting,
- save-all,
- neckcloth,
- tightwad,
- cheap,
- enormous,
- wolflike,
- self-absorbed,
- Unslaked,
- illiberal,
- predacious,
- glutton,
- self-loving,
- pillaging,
- penny-pinching,
- scotch,
- insatiable,
- close.
How to use "Avaricious" in context?
There is a Latin word for "avaricious" which is avaritia. It is derived from the verb avarire, meaning "to misspend, squander." This is a term used to describe someone who is excessively greedy and wants to obtain more than they need. In ancient Rome, avarice was seen as a sin and those who possessed it were often punished. However, in modern times, avarice has been seen as apositive trait, as it is usually a sign that someone is successful and is willing to take risks.
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