Greed

Noun

 * 1) A selfish or excessive desire for more than is needed or deserved, especially of money, wealth, food, or other possessions.

Adjectives for Greed
pulpit; inordinate; disappointed; reckless; instinctive; intrenched; insatiable; rapturous; internecine; misapplied; misdirected; methodical; physical; miserly.

Verbs for Greed
curse indulge—; loathe— with—; prey uponsatiate—; torment annoys; —chokes; drains; —repels; stints; —tempts.

Thesaurus
selfishness, selfism, sloth, sordidness, stinginess, superbia, swinish gluttony, swinishness, voraciousness, voracity, wolfishness, wrath, yearning, acedia, acquisitiveness, anger, autism, avarice, avariciousness, avaritia, avidity, avidness, careerism, covetousness, crapulence, crapulency, craving, cupidity, deadly sin, edacity, ego trip, egotism, envy, frenzy of desire, fury of desire, gluttonousness, gluttony, grasping, graspingness, greediness, gula, gulosity, hoggishness, hyperphagia, incontinence, individualism, inordinate desire, insatiability, insatiable desire, intemperance, intemperateness, interest, invidia, ira, itching palm, lust, luxuria, meanness, miserliness, narcissism, niggardliness, omnivorousness, overeating, overgreediness, overindulgence, parsimony, penny-pinching, penuriousness, personal aims, personal ambition, personal desires, personalism, piggishness, polyphagia, possessiveness, pride, privatism, rapaciousness, rapacity, ravenousness, remoteness, self-absorption, self-admiration, self-advancement, self-centeredness, self-consideration, self-containment, self-devotion, self-esteem, self-indulgence, self-interest, self-interestedness, self-jealousy, self-occupation, self-pleasing, self-seeking, self-serving, self-solicitude, self-sufficiency,

Synonyms

 * avarice, covetousness, greediness, rapacity
 * See also Thesaurus:greed

Derived terms

 * greedily
 * greediness
 * greedy

Translations

 * Albanian: lakmi
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 贪心
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: hebzucht, gulzigheid
 * German: ,
 * Hindi: लालच (lālać)
 * Hungarian: kapzsiság, mohóság
 * Italian: ,
 * Korean:
 * Latin:
 * Persian: حرص
 * Polish:


 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: sannt, sanntachd
 * Serbian: pohlepa, gramžljivost, grabežljivost, halapljivost, srebroljublje, škrtost, požuda
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Urdu: (tam'a),  (lālać)

Anagrams

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