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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

Apician, a hog for, acquiring, acquisitive, all-devouring, ambitious for self, autistic, avaricious, avid, bolting, bottomless, careerist, close, cormorant, coveting, covetous, cramming, crapulent, crapulous, craving, desirous, devouring, edacious, egotistical, esurient, glutting, gluttonizing, gluttonous, gobbling, gorging, grabby, grasping, gulping, guttling, guzzling, hoggish, hyperphagic, individualistic, insatiable, insatiate, intemperate, itchy, limitless, materialistic, mean, mercenary, mingy, miserly, money-hungry, money-mad, narcissistic, near, niggardly, omnivorous, overgreedy, parsimonious, penny-pinching, penurious, personalistic, piggish, polyphagic, possessive, prehensile, privatistic, quenchless, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, remote, self-absorbed, self-admiring, self-advancing, self-besot, self-centered, self-considerative, self-contained, self-devoted, self-esteeming, self-indulgent, self-interested, self-jealous, self-occupied, self-pleasing, self-seeking, self-serving, self-sufficient, selfish, slakeless, sordid, stingy, stuffing, swinish, tight, tight-fisted, unappeasable, unappeased, unquenchable, unsated, unsatisfied, unslakeable, unslaked, venal, voracious, wolfing

Dictionary Results for greedy:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

greedy
    adj 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" [syn:
           avaricious, covetous, grabby, grasping, greedy,
           prehensile]
    2: (often followed by `for') ardently or excessively desirous;
       "avid for adventure"; "an avid ambition to succeed"; "fierce
       devouring affection"; "the esurient eyes of an avid
       curiosity"; "greedy for fame" [syn: avid, devouring(a),
       esurient, greedy]
    3: wanting to eat or drink more than one can reasonably consume;
       "don't be greedy with the cookies"

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Greedy \Greed"y\ (gr[=e]d"[y^]), a. [Compar. Greedier
   (-[i^]*[~e]r); superl. Greediest.] [OE. gredi, AS.
   gr[=ae]dig, gr[=e]dig; akin to D. gretig, OS. gr[=a]dag, OHG.
   gr[=a]tag, Dan. graadig, OSw. gradig, gr[*a]dig, Icel.
   gr[=a][eth]ugr, Goth. gr[=e]dags greedy, gr[=e]d[=e]n to be
   hungry; cf. Skr. g[.r]dh to be greedy. Cf. Greed.]
   1. Having a keen appetite for food or drink; ravenous;
      voracious; very hungry; -- followed by of; as, a lion that
      is greedy of his prey.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Having a keen desire for anything; vehemently desirous;
      eager to obtain; avaricious; as, greedy of gain.
      [1913 Webster]

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