avaricious

Betekenis (Engels)

Actuated by avarice; extremely greedy for wealth or material gain; immoderately desirous of accumulating property.

Sinonieme

greedy

stingy

covetous

miserly

grasping

rapacious

selfish

voracious

miser

avid

mean

eagerly desirous

acquisitive

insatiable

piggish

ravenous

grabby

niggardly

mammonish

closefisted

gluttonous

moneygrubbing

niggard

parsimonious

prehensile

sordid

ungenerous

winning over

green-eyed

mercenary

mingy

glutton

frugal

moneygrubber

ambitious

be ambitious

filthy

be grasping

penurious

economical

predatory

be piggish

close-fisted

cheapskate

chary

be rapacious

spare

calculating

thrifty

cash-hungry

Vertalings

avare

avaro

habgierig

avaro

avido

geizig

codicioso

habsüchtig

cupide

inhalig

radin

hebzuchtig

gierig

avarus

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ˌævəˈɹɪʃəs/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: avaricious

In summary

From Middle English avaricious, from Old French avaricieux, from avarice, from Latin avaritia (“greed”), from avarus (“greedy”), of avere (“crave, long for”).