greednoun [ U ]
uk/ɡriːd/us/ɡriːd/C1 a very strong wish to continuously get more of something, especially food or money:
I don't know why I'm eating more - it's not hunger, it's just greed!
He was unsympathetic with many house sellers, complaining that they were motivated by greed.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Greedy
- avarice
- consumerism
- eye
- glutton
- gluttonous
- gluttony
- grasping
- greedy
- greedy guts
- growth-oriented
- hog
- materialism
- materialist
- materialistic
- mercenary
- money-grubbing
- pig
- sb's eyes are bigger than their belly/stomach idiom
- wolfish
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