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avaricious
adj. greedy, desiring power or wealth


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avaricious
Adjective
1. 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"
(synonym) covetous, grabby, grasping, greedy, prehensile
(similar) acquisitive



Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)Download this dictionary
Avaricious
(a.)
Actuated by avarice; greedy of gain; immoderately desirous of accumulating property.
  

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avaricious
adj.
لالچي , لوبھي , طامع , حري

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avaricious
Synonyms and related words:
a hog for, acquisitive, all-devouring, avid, bottomless, cheap, close, closefisted, coveting, covetous, devouring, esurient, gluttonous, gobbling, grabby, grasping, greedy, hardfisted, hoggish, illiberal, insatiable, insatiate, limitless, mean, mercenary, miserly, money-hungry, money-mad, near, niggardly, omnivorous, overgreedy, parsimonious, penny-pinching, penurious, piggish, pinchfisted, pinching, quenchless, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, save-all, selfish, slakeless, sordid, stingy, swinish, tight, tight-fisted, tightfisted, unappeasable, unappeased, ungenerous, unquenchable, unsated, unsatisfied, unslakeable, unslaked, venal, voracious
  

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