Word Meanings - AVARICIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Actuated by avarice; greedy of gain; immoderately desirous of accumulating property. Syn. -- Greedy; stingy; rapacious; griping; sordid; close. -- Avaricious, Covetous, Parsimonious, Penurious, Miserly, Niggardly. The avaricious eagerly grasp after

Additional info about word: AVARICIOUS

Actuated by avarice; greedy of gain; immoderately desirous of accumulating property. Syn. -- Greedy; stingy; rapacious; griping; sordid; close. -- Avaricious, Covetous, Parsimonious, Penurious, Miserly, Niggardly. The avaricious eagerly grasp after it at the expense of others, though not of necessity with a design to save, since a man may be covetous and yet a spendthrift. The penurious, parsimonious, and miserly save money by disgraceful self-denial, and the niggardly by meanness in their dealing with others. We speak of persons as covetous in getting, avaricious in retaining, parsimonious in expending, penurious or miserly in modes of living, niggardly in dispensing. -- Av`a*ri"cious*ly, adv -- Av`a*ri"cious*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of AVARICIOUS)

• Covetous
• Acquisitive
• avaricious
• greedy
• grasping
• rapacious
• Greed
• Gluttonous
• voracious
• hungry
• desirous
• Mercenary
• Sordid
• venal
• selfish
• griping
• Penurious
• Niggardly
• parsimonious
• miserly
• closefisted
• sordid
• stingy
• Rapacious
• Greedy
• ravenous
• predaceous
• extortionate

Related words: (words related to AVARICIOUS)

• GREENLANDER
  A native of Greenland.
• GREETING
  Expression of kindness or joy; salutation at meeting; a compliment from one absent. Write to him . . . gentle adieus and greetings. Shak. Syn. -- Salutation; salute; compliment.
• GREENLET
  l. One of numerous species of small American singing birds, of the genus Vireo, as the solitary, or blue-headed (Vireo solitarius); the brotherly-love ; the warbling greenlet ; the yellow-throated greenlet and others. See Vireo. 2. Any species
• GRENADO
  See GRENADE
• RAVENOUS
  1. Devouring with rapacious eagerness; furiously voracious; hungry even to rage; as, a ravenous wolf or vulture. 2. Eager for prey or gratification; as, a ravenous appetite or desire. -- Rav"en*ous*ly, adv. -- Rav"en*ous*ness, n.
• SORDIDNESS
  The quality or state of being sordid.
• GREENSAND
  A variety of sandstone, usually imperfectly consolidated, consisting largely of glauconite, a silicate of iron and potash of a green color, mixed with sand and a trace of phosphate of lime. Note: Greensand is often called marl, because
• GREENFISH
  See POLLOCK
• GREENOCKITE
  Native cadmium sulphide, a mineral occurring in yellow hexagonal crystals, also as an earthy incrustation.
• HUNGRY
  1. Feeling hunger; having a keen appetite; feeling uneasiness or distress from want of food; hence, having an eager desire. 2. Showing hunger or a craving desire; voracious. The cruel, hungry foam. C. Kingsley. Cassius has a lean and hungry look.
• GREAT-HEARTED
  1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• SELFISHLY
  In a selfish manner; with regard to private interest only or chiefly.
• GREENHOUSE
  A house in which tender plants are cultivated and sheltered from the weather.
• GREENWEED
  See GREENBROOM
• SELFISHNESS
  The quality or state of being selfish; exclusive regard to one's own interest or happiness; that supreme self-love or self- preference which leads a person to direct his purposes to the advancement of his own interest, power, or happiness, without
• GREASINESS
  The quality or state of being greasy, oiliness; unctuousness; grossness.
• GRIPPLE
  A grasp; a gripe. Spenser.
• GRASP
  1. To seize and hold by clasping or embracing with the fingers or arms; to catch to take possession of. Thy hand is made to grasp a palmer's staff. Shak. 2. To lay hold of with the mind; to become thoroughly acquainted or conversant with;
• GREENHORN
  A raw, inexperienced person; one easily imposed upon. W. Irving.
• ARM-GRET
  Great as a man's arm. A wreath of gold, arm-gret. Chaucer.
• AGGREGATOR
  One who aggregates.
• SANGRAAL; SANGREAL
  See GRAIL
• DISAGREEABLENESS
  The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.
• UNPEDIGREED
  Not distinguished by a pedigree. Pollok.
• INGREAT
  To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby.
• AMBERGREASE
  See AMBERGRIS
• REGREDE
  To go back; to retrograde, as the apsis of a planet's orbit. Todhunter.
• RETROGRESS
  Retrogression. H. Spenser.
• OVERGREEDY
  Excessively greedy.
• CONGRESSIVE
  Encountering, or coming together. Sir T. Browne.