avaricious

av·a·ri·cious

A0543300 (ăv′ə-rĭsh′əs)adj. Immoderately desirous of wealth or gain; greedy.

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av′a·ri′cious·ly adv.av′a·ri′cious·ness n.

av•a•ri•cious

(ˌæv əˈrɪʃ əs)

adj. characterized by avarice; greedy; covetous. [1425–75] av`a•ri′cious•ly, adv. av`a•ri′cious•ness, n. syn: avaricious, covetous, greedy suggest a desire to possess more of something than one needs or is entitled to. avaricious often implies a pathological greed for money or other valuables and usu. suggests a concomitant miserliness: an avaricious usurer. covetous implies a powerful and often illicit desire for the possessions of another: The book collector was covetous of my rare first edition. greedy, the most general of these terms, suggests an uncontrolled desire for almost anything: greedy for knowledge; greedy for power.

Thesaurus

Adj.

1.

avaricious - 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"grabby, grasping, greedy, covetous, prehensileacquisitive - eager to acquire and possess things especially material possessions or ideas; "an acquisitive mind"; "an acquisitive society in which the craving for material things seems never satisfied"

avaricious

adjective grasping, greedy, acquisitive, stingy, mean, miserable, rapacious, penny-pinching, parsimonious, miserly, niggardly, covetous, penurious, close-fisted, tight-arsed (taboo slang), tight-assed (U.S. taboo slang), snoep (S. African informal), tight as a duck's arse (taboo slang) He sacrificed his career so that his avaricious brother could succeed.

avaricious

adjectiveHaving a strong urge to obtain or possess something, especially material wealth, in quantity:acquisitive, avid, covetous, grasping, greedy, hungry.Informal: grabby.

Translations

贪婪的

avarice

(ˈӕvəris) noun strong desire for money etc; greed. 貪財，貪婪 贪婪ˌavaˈricious (-ʃəs) adjective 貪財的，貪婪的 贪婪的