A miser hoards money not because he is prudent but because he is greedy.
Source: tatoeba (1966)
Greedy
//ˈɡɹiːdi//
Synonyms for "greedy" (140 found)
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Closest matches (28)
gluttonousavariciousdevouringa hog foracquiringacquisitiveall-devouringambitiousambitious for selfapicianautisticavidboltingbottomlessbourgeoiscareeristclosecormorantcovetingcovetous
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Adjective(4 words)
Adjective(3 words)
Strong matches (42)
Related words (70)
miserlymoney hungrymoney madmoney-hungrymoney-madnarcissisticnearniggardlyomnivorousovergreedyparsimoniouspenny-pinchingpenuriouspersonalisticpiggishpolyphagicpossessivepredatoryprehensileprivatistic
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quenchlessrapaciousraveningravenousremoteself-absorbedself-admiringself-advancingself-besotself-centeredself-considerativeself-containedself-devotedself-esteemingself-indulgentself-interestedself-jealousself-occupiedself-pleasingself-seekingself-servingself-sufficientselfishslakelesssordidstingystuffingswinishthirstytighttight-fistedunappeasableunappeasedunquenchableunsatedunsatisfiedunslakeableunslakedvenalvoraciouswolfing
Adjective(1 words)
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184 translations across 82 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- gulsig adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
Albanian
1 entries- lakmitar adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
Ancient Greek
2 entries- πλεονέκτης adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
- φιλοκερδής adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
Arabic
4 entries- بخيل adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
- بَخِيل adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
- جَشِع adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
- شرِه adj (prone to overeat)
Armenian
1 entries- ագահ adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
Bashkir
4 entries- хирес adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
- ҡомағай adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
- ҡомһоҙ adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
- ҡомһоҙ adj (prone to overeat)
Belarusian
3 entries- пра́гны adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
- хці́вы adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
- хі́жы adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
Bulgarian
2 entries- а́лчен adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
- лаком adj (prone to overeat)
Campidanese Sardinian
3 entries- abbramiu adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
- asurídu adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
- asuríu adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
Catalan
4 entries- avar adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
- avariciós adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
- cobdiciós adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
- cobejós adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- چاو برسی adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
Chinese Cantonese
2 entries- 為食 /为食 adj (prone to overeat)
- 貪心 /贪心 adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 貪婪的 /贪婪的 adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
- 貪心的 /贪心的 adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
Czech
4 entries- chamtivý adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
- chtivý adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
- hamižný adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
- nenasytný adj (prone to overeat)
Dalmatian
2 entries- golaus adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
- gulaus adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
Danish
1 entries- grådig adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
Dutch
1 entries- hebzuchtig adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
Esperanto
1 entries- avida adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
Estonian
1 entries- ahne adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
Finnish
2 entries- ahnas adj (prone to overeat)
- ahne adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
French
4 entries- avaricieux adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
- avide adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
- cupide adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
- gourmand adj (prone to overeat)
Galician
4 entries- cobizoso adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
- degorado adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
- eigoto adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
- intivioso adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
Gallurese
2 entries- inguddòssu adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
- strùziu adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
German
4 entries- gefräßig adj (prone to overeat)
- gierig adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
- habgierig adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
- habsüchtig adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
Greek
1 entries- άπληστος adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
Hebrew
1 entries- חמדן adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
Hindi
1 entries- कंजूस adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
Hungarian
3 entries- falánk adj (prone to overeat)
- kapzsi adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
- mohó adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
Icelandic
1 entries- gráðugur adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
Ido
1 entries- avida adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
Indonesian
4 entries- loba adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
- rakus adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
- serakah adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
- tamak adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
Ingrian
1 entries- ahmo adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
Irish
4 entries- alpach adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
- alpach adj (prone to overeat)
- amplach adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
- amplúil adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
Italian
3 entries- avido adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
- goloso adj (prone to overeat)
- ingordo adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
Jamaican Creole
1 entries- craven adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
Japanese
1 entries- 貪欲な adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
Kabuverdianu
4 entries- guloze adj (prone to overeat)
- gulós adj (prone to overeat)
- langon adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
- laskadu adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
Kalmyk
1 entries- ховдг adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
Khiamniungan Naga
1 entries- wāmwāmnyū adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
Khmer
3 entries- លោភ adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
- លោភលន់ adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
- លោភោ adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
Korean
2 entries- 욕심 많다 adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
- 탐욕스럽다 adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
Latin
3 entries- avidus adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
- avārus adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
- trahāx adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
Lun Bawang
1 entries- mangaa adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
Macedonian
2 entries- алчен adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
- лаком adj (prone to overeat)
Māori
1 entries- touapo adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
Nepali
1 entries- लोभी adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
Norman
1 entries- grédin adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- grådig adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- grådig adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
- grådug adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
Occitan
3 entries- avar adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
- avid adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
- cobejós adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
Old English
1 entries- ġīfre adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
Ottoman Turkish
2 entries- آج adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
- حریص adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
Persian
3 entries- آزمند adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
- حریص adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
- رژد adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- bejierich adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
Polish
2 entries- chciwy adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
- skąpy adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
Portuguese
3 entries- avaro adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
- ganancioso adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
- guloso adj (prone to overeat)
Punjabi
1 entries- ਲਾਲਚੀ adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
Romanian
2 entries- lacom adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
- zgârcit adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
Russian
4 entries- а́лчный adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
- жа́дный adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
- ненасы́тный adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
- ска́редный adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
Sardinian
4 entries- abbramidu adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
- alarpu adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
- esurídu adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
- isgrasumìdu adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
Sassarese
2 entries- abbramidu adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
- ucciòni adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
Scottish Gaelic
2 entries- gionach adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
- sanntach adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- pohlepan adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
- похлепан adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
Slovak
4 entries- chamtivý adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
- chtivý adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
- hrabivý adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
- nenásytný adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
Slovene
1 entries- pohlepen adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
Spanish
4 entries- angurriento adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
- avaricioso adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
- avariento adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
- avaro adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
Sranan Tongo
1 entries- gridi adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
Swedish
1 entries- girig adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
Tagalog
1 entries- matakaw adj (prone to overeat)
Telugu
1 entries- పొగరు adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
Thai
1 entries- โลภ adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
Tibetan
1 entries- ཧམ་པ་ཚ་པོ adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
Tocharian B
1 entries- entsesse adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
Turkish
1 entries- açgözlü adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
Ukrainian
4 entries- жа́дний adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
- жа́дібний adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
- жадли́вий adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
- жадни́й adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
Unami
1 entries- xëlètie adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
Vietnamese
2 entries- tham adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
- tham lam adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
Walloon
2 entries- golafe adj (prone to overeat)
- tinciveus adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
Welsh
2 entries- barus adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
- gwancus adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
West-Frisian
1 entries- gjirrich adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
Woiwurrung
1 entries- buladu gaang adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
Yiddish
3 entries- אײַנרײַסעריש adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
- גיריק adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
- זשעדנע adj (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
Don't be so greedy or you'll wind up with nothing.
Source: tatoeba (41466)
That proposal may be a way to kill two birds with one stone, but we also have to be careful not to get greedy and spoil everything.
Source: tatoeba (44947)
Shylock is greedy, and what is worse, very stingy.
Source: tatoeba (53192)
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