What is another word for greedy?
382 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ ɡɹˈiːdi], [ ɡɹˈiːdi], [ ɡ_ɹ_ˈiː_d_i]
The word "greedy" has a negative connotation associated with it, and it is always better to use synonyms to avoid hurting someone's feelings. A few synonyms for the word "greedy" are avaricious, covetous, rapacious, grasping, gluttonous, voracious, insatiable, and acquisitive. These words help to convey the same meaning as "greedy" but in a more acceptable way. For instance, instead of saying, "He is a greedy man," you can say, "He has an insatiable appetite for wealth." This not only replaces the word "greedy" but paints a more vivid picture of the person as well. It is important to choose your words carefully to avoid coming across as rude or insensitive.
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Similar words for greedy:
- avid (adjective)
- cheap (adjective)
- desirous (adjective)
- envious (adjective)
- hungry (adjective)
- materialistic (adjective)
- mean (adjective)
- predatory (adjective)
- selfish (adjective)
- stingy (adjective)
- sybaritic (adjective)
- tight (adjective)
- tightfisted (adjective)
- unappeasable (adjective)
- wishful (adjective)
- acquisitive (adjective)
- all (adjective)
- avaricious (adjective)
- desiring excessively (adjective)
- eager (adjective)
- extortionate (adjective)
- hard-fisted (adjective)
- hedonic (adjective)
- insatiable (adjective)
- parsimonious (adjective)
- penurious (adjective)
- ravenous (adjective)
- remorseless (adjective)
- thirsty (adjective)
- worldly (adjective)
- desiring (verb)
- corrupt
- flesh-eating
- hoggish
- miserly
- mundane
- oppressive
- other relevant words (adjective)
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Greedy:
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adj.
• avid • cheap • desirous- Lusting ,
- amorous ,
- ardent ,
- covetous ,
- expectant ,
- fond ,
- grasping ,
- hankering ,
- hopeful ,
- itching ,
- needful ,
- passionate ,
- urgent ,
- wishful ,
- yearning .
- begrudging ,
- discontented ,
- dissatisfied ,
- green-eyed ,
- grudging ,
- resentful ,
- fain ,
- green with envy ,
- longing for .
- Famishing ,
- Hungered ,
- could eat a horse ,
- esurient ,
- flying light ,
- got the munchies ,
- insatiate ,
- on empty stomach ,
- unfilled ,
- unsatisfied .
- Self-interested ,
- egocentric ,
- egotistic ,
- hoggish ,
- narcissistic ,
- out for number one ,
- self-centered ,
- self-occupied ,
- self-seeking ,
- vain ,
- wrapped up in oneself .
- money-conscious ,
- money conscious ,
- moneyconscious ,
- more money conscious ,
- more money-conscious ,
- more moneyconscious ,
- most money conscious ,
- most money-conscious ,
- most moneyconscious .
- Cadging ,
- avaricious ,
- hoarding ,
- mercenary ,
- miserly ,
- money-grubbing ,
- monopolistic ,
- possessive ,
- sordid ,
- usurious ,
- venal .
- Gobbling ,
- Gormandizing ,
- avid ,
- close ,
- close-fisted ,
- devouring ,
- edacious ,
- gulping ,
- guzzling ,
- impatient ,
- intemperate ,
- itchy ,
- penurious ,
- piggish ,
- ravening ,
- swinish ,
- tight ,
- voracious .
- hot trot ,
- in tent ,
- more appetent ,
- more eager ,
- more hankering ,
- more pining ,
- more self starting ,
- more self-starting ,
- more selfstarting ,
- more warmblooded ,
- most appetent ,
- most fervid ,
- most hankering ,
- most pining ,
- most self starting ,
- most self-starting ,
- most selfstarting ,
- most warmblooded ,
- rarin go ,
- rarin to go ,
- rarin' go ,
- ready and willing ,
- ready willing ,
- self starting ,
- self-starting ,
- selfstarting ,
- vehement .
- importunate ,
- in satiable ,
- in temperate ,
- in-satiable ,
- in-temperate ,
- more quenchless ,
- more unsatisfiable ,
- most quenchless ,
- most unsatisfiable ,
- un satisfiable ,
- un-satisfiable .
- close fisted ,
- more curmudgeonly ,
- more hoarding ,
- more pennywise ,
- more pinchpenny ,
- more scrimping ,
- more ungiving ,
- most curmudgeonly ,
- most hoarding ,
- most pennywise ,
- most pinchpenny ,
- most scrimping ,
- most ungiving ,
- un charitable ,
- un generous ,
- un giving ,
- un-charitable ,
- un-generous ,
- un-giving .
- hard bitten ,
- hard hearted ,
- in human ,
- in humane ,
- in sensitive ,
- in tolerant ,
- in-exorable ,
- in-human ,
- in-humane ,
- in-sensitive ,
- more hard hearted ,
- more hard-hearted ,
- more uncontrite ,
- more unregenerate ,
- more unrepenting ,
- most hard hearted ,
- most hard-hearted ,
- most uncontrite ,
- most unregenerate ,
- most unrepenting ,
- un compassionate ,
- un contrite ,
- un forgiving ,
- un merciful ,
- un regenerate ,
- un relenting ,
- un remitting ,
- un repenting ,
- un yielding ,
- un-compassionate ,
- un-contrite ,
- un-forgiving ,
- un-merciful ,
- un-remitting ,
- un-repenting ,
- un-yielding ,
- unforgiving .
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v.
• desiring Other synonyms:
- cynical ,
- inward-looking ,
- parasitic ,
- predatory ,
- remorseless ,
- self-absorbed ,
- self-serving ,
- unappeasable ,
- unquenchable .
- replete .
- light .
- piggy .
Other relevant words:
- Insatiability ,
- acquisitiveness ,
- appetite ,
- attribute ,
- avarice ,
- avidity ,
- avidness ,
- characteristic ,
- close-fistedness ,
- covetousness ,
- craving ,
- cupidity ,
- desire ,
- eagerness ,
- edacity ,
- feature ,
- gluttony ,
- grabbiness ,
- graspingness ,
- greediness ,
- hunger ,
- longing ,
- materialism ,
- miserliness ,
- niggardliness ,
- parsimony ,
- penny-pinching ,
- penuriousness ,
- personality ,
- property ,
- quality ,
- rapacity ,
- selfishness ,
- stinginess ,
- trait ,
- voraciousness ,
- voracity .
- take .
- Droughty ,
- Hard-hearted ,
- Pinchpenny ,
- Thirsting ,
- Ungiving ,
- Unrepenting ,
- acquisitive ,
- been around ,
- bone dry ,
- cottonmouthed ,
- crazy for ,
- curmudgeonly ,
- desirous ,
- dry as dust ,
- dying for ,
- eager ,
- envious ,
- gluttonous ,
- hardbitten ,
- hardfisted ,
- hot to trot ,
- hungry ,
- inhumane ,
- insatiable ,
- itching for ,
- juiceless ,
- mean ,
- niggardly ,
- omnivorous ,
- opportunistic ,
- parsimonious ,
- pennywise ,
- power-loving ,
- prehensile ,
- quenchless ,
- rapacious ,
- rarin' to go ,
- ravenous ,
- sapless ,
- selfish ,
- starved to death ,
- stingy ,
- un-regenerate ,
- uncontrite ,
- unregenerate ,
- unsatisfiable ,
- uptown ,
- warmblooded ,
- waterless ,
- wild for ,
- worldly ,
- worldly wise .
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How to use "Greedy" in context?
If you want something, you do whatever it takes to get it. This can be summed up in the term "greedy." Greedy is all about getting what you want without regard for others. Some people are more greedy than others, but all of us can be characterized by this trait at some point.
When it comes to getting what we want, we can be very selfish. We often think only about ourselves, not about what could happen if we don't get what we want. We may not care about the consequences, because we only want what we can get.
Sometimes this is harmless.
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Equivalence
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Adjective
rapacious.
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Adjective
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Independent
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Adjective
ambitious, corrupt, egotistical, hungry, self-serving, selfish, voracious.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Adjective
avid, eager, miserly, self-centered, stingy.
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