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avaricious
Synonyms and Antonyms of avaricious
having or marked by an eager and often selfish desire especially for material possessions
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
Synonym Discussion of avaricious
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- covetous of his brother's country estate
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- greedy for status symbols
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- an eagerly acquisitive mind
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- a hard grasping trader who cheated the natives
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- an avaricious miser
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