Entry Word: greedy

Function: adjective

Meaning: 1 having or marked by an eager and often selfish desire especially for material possessions <a young rocker who was greedy for fame and riches> <the greedy exploitation of the land by developers>

Synonyms acquisitive, avaricious, avid, coveting, covetous, grasping, mercenary, rapacious

Related Words materialistic, philistine; desirous, eager, itchy, miserly; hoggish, piggish, swinish; devouring, gluttonous, gobbling, insatiable, ravenous, unquenchable, voracious; discontent, discontented, malcontent, unquenched, unsatisfied; begrudging, grudging, resentful

Near Antonyms bounteous, bountiful, charitable, freehanded, generous, greathearted, handsome, liberal, munificent, openhanded, openhearted, unselfish, unsparing; controlled, moderate, restrained, temperate; content, sated, satisfied

2 having a huge appetite <he's so greedy you have to carefully watch your plate during dinner, lest he snatch food off it> — see voracious 1