avaricious

Signification (Anglais)

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

Concepts

avare

radin

cupide

avaricieux

pingre

avide

parcimonieux

rat

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teigneux

vorace

ladre

envieux

glouton

gourmand

jalouse

jaloux

Synonymes

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

Traductions

avaro

habgierig

avaro

avido

geizig

codicioso

habsüchtig

inhalig

hebzuchtig

avarus

gierig

avaro

avar

pinnig

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˌævəˈɹɪʃəs/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: 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”).