Word Meanings - MERCENARY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Acting for reward; serving for pay; paid; hired; hireling; venal; as, mercenary soldiers. 2. Hence: Moved by considerations of pay or profit; greedy of gain; sordid; selfish. Shak. For God forbid I should my papers blot With mercenary lines,

Additional info about word: MERCENARY

1. Acting for reward; serving for pay; paid; hired; hireling; venal; as, mercenary soldiers. 2. Hence: Moved by considerations of pay or profit; greedy of gain; sordid; selfish. Shak. For God forbid I should my papers blot With mercenary lines, with servile pen. Daniel. Syn. -- See Venal.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MERCENARY)

• Selfish
• Egotistical
• self-minded
• self-indulgent
• self-worshipful
• worldly
• illiberal
• ungenerous
• narrowminded
• mercenary
• greedy

Related words: (words related to MERCENARY)

• WORLDLY
  1. Relating to the world; human; common; as, worldly maxims; worldly actions. "I thus neglecting worldly ends." Shak. Many years it hath continued, standing by no other worldly mean but that one only hand which erected it. Hooker. 2. Pertaining
• ILLIBERALISM
  Illiberality.
• SELFISHLY
  In a selfish manner; with regard to private interest only or chiefly.
• WORLDLY-MINDED
  Devoted to worldly interests; mindful of the affairs of the present life, and forgetful of those of the future; loving and pursuing this world's goods, to the exclusion of piety and attention to spiritual concerns. -- World"ly*mind`ed*ness, n.
• 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
• ILLIBERALNESS
  The state of being illiberal; illiberality.
• UNGENEROUSLY
  In an ungenerous manner.
• MERCENARY
  1. Acting for reward; serving for pay; paid; hired; hireling; venal; as, mercenary soldiers. 2. Hence: Moved by considerations of pay or profit; greedy of gain; sordid; selfish. Shak. For God forbid I should my papers blot With mercenary lines,
• UNGENEROUS
  Not generous; illiberal; ignoble; unkind; dishonorable. The victor never will impose on Cato Ungenerous terms. Addison.
• GREEDY-GUT
  A glutton. Todd.
• WORLDLYWISE; WORLDLY-WISE
  Wise in regard to things of this world. Bunyan.
• ILLIBERALLY
  In a illiberal manner, ungenerously; uncharitably; parsimoniously.
• EGOTISTICALLY
  With egotism.
• ILLIBERAL
  1. Not liberal; not free or generous; close; niggardly; mean; sordid. "A thrifty and illiberal hand." Mason. 2. Indicating a lack of breeding, culture, and the like; ignoble; rude; narrow-minded; disingenuous. 3. Not well authorized or elegant;
• SELF-INDULGENT
  Indulging one's appetites, desires, etc., freely.
• SELFISH
  Believing or teaching that the chief motives of human action are derived from love of self. Hobbes and the selfish school of philosophers. Fleming. (more info) 1. Caring supremely or unduly for one's self; regarding one's own comfort, advantage,
• ILLIBERALIZE
  To make illiberal.
• GREEDY
  gredi, AS. grdig, grdig; akin to D. gretig, OS. grdag, OHG. grtag, Dan. graadig, OSw. gradig, grdig, Icel. graugr, Goth. grdags greedy, 1. Having a keen appetite for food or drink; ravenous; voracious; very hungry; -- followed by of; as, a lion
• ILLIBERALITY
  The state or quality of being illiberal; narrowness of mind; meanness; niggardliness. Bacon.
• OVERGREEDY
  Excessively greedy.
• UNWORLDLY
  Not worldly; spiritual; holy. Hawthorne. -- Un*world"li*ness, n.
• EGOTISTIC; EGOTISTICAL
  Addicted to, or manifesting, egotism. Syn. -- Conceited; vain; self-important; opinionated.