Avaricious

Adjective

 * 1) Actuated by avarice; greedy of gain; immoderately desirous of accumulating property.

Adverbs for Avaricious
incurably; avidly; insanely; peculiarly; incorrigibly; distressingly; painfully; embarrassingly; irreclaimably; hopelessly; shamelessly; appallingly; terribly; horribly; churlishly; sordidly; rapaciously.

Thesaurus
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; tight-fisted; tightfisted; unappeasable; unappeased; ungenerous; unquenchable; unsated; unsatisfied; unslakeable; unslaked; venal; voracious

Etymology
From avaricieux:

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:greedy

Derived terms

 * avariciously
 * avariciousness

Related terms

 * avarice

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:, користолюбив
 * Dutch:, avaricieus
 * Finnish: ahne
 * French:
 * German: habgierig, habsüchtig


 * Hungarian:
 * Ido: avara
 * Scottish Gaelic: sanntach, gionach
 * Spanish: avaricioso, codicioso
 * Swedish: