avaricious

av·a·ri·cious

adjective \ˌa-və-ˈri-shəs\

Definition of AVARICIOUS

: greedy of gain : excessively acquisitive especially in seeking to hoard riches

— av·a·ri·cious·ly adverb

— av·a·ri·cious·ness noun

Examples of AVARICIOUS

1. <an avaricious scheme to con the elderly couple out of thousands of dollars>

First Known Use of AVARICIOUS

15th century

Related to AVARICIOUS

Synonyms

acquisitive, greedy, avid, coveting, covetous, grabby, grasping, mercenary, moneygrubbing, rapacious

Related Words

commercialistic, materialistic, philistine; desirous, eager, itchy, lickerish, miserly; hoggish, piggish, piggy, swinish; devouring, gluttonous, gobbling, insatiable, ravenous, unquenchable, voracious; egocentric, egoistic (also egoistical), egotistic (or egotistical), self-centered, self-seeking; discontent, discontented, malcontent, unsatisfied; begrudging, grudging, resentful

Near Antonyms

nonmaterialistic; altruistic, bounteous, bountiful, charitable, freehanded, generous, greathearted, handsome, liberal, magnanimous, munificent, openhanded, openhearted, selfless, unselfish, unsparing; controlled, moderate, restrained, temperate; content, sated, satisfied

See Synonym Discussion at covetous

Rhymes with AVARICIOUS

adscititious, adventitious, cementitious, expeditious, inauspicious, injudicious, meretricious, Red Delicious, repetitious, subreptitious, superstitious, suppositious, surreptitious