Defenition of the word avaricious

• Defenition of the word avaricious

  • Immoderately desirous of accumulating property.
  • Excessively desirous of money, wealth or possessions.
  • 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"
  • 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 greed
  • immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth

Synonyms for the word avaricious

• • acquisitive
  • avid
  • covetous
  • grabby
  • grasping
  • greedy
  • materialistic
  • prehensile
  • rapacious

Similar words in the avaricious

• • acquisitive
  • avaricious
  • avariciously

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