av·a·ri·cious ( v  -r sh s)adj. Immoderately desirous of wealth or gain; greedy. av a·ricious·ly adv.av a·ricious·ness n. |
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| 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"acquisitive - 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.
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