greedyadjective
uk/ˈɡriː.di/us/ˈɡriː.di/B2 wanting a lot more food, money, etc. than you need:
greedy, selfish people
He's greedy for power/success.
More examples
- You greedy pig! You're not having another chocolate biscuit!
- It would be greedy to have another slice of cake.
- He was portrayed as a greedy, grasping man.
- Don't be greedy!
- Is it just greedy to want more money?
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Greedy
- avarice
- consumerism
- eye
- glutton
- gluttonous
- gluttony
- grasping
- greed
- 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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greedily
adverb uk/ˈɡriː.dəl.i/us/ˈɡriː.dəl.i/
He ate the bread greedily.
greediness
noun [ U ] uk/ˈɡriː.di.nəs/us/ˈɡriː.di.nəs/