avaricious adj : 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" [syn: covetous, grabby, grasping, greedy, prehensile]

English

Pronunciation

• /ˌævəˈrɪʃəs/

Adjective

1. Actuated by avarice; greedy of gain; immoderately desirous of accumulating property.

   quotations:

   • "In a word, he was called a hard, avaricious, rapacious man, whose chief business was to enrich himself..." — Robert Montgomery Bird (1806-1854)

Related terms

• avariciously

Translations

• French: avare
• German: habgierig, habsüchtig
• Ido: avara

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