Word Meanings - COVET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

derivative fr. L. cupere to desire; cf. Skr. kup to become excited. 1. To wish for with eagerness; to desire possession of; -- used in a good sen Covet earnestly the best gifts. 1. Cor. xxii. 31. If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the

Additional info about word: COVET

derivative fr. L. cupere to desire; cf. Skr. kup to become excited. 1. To wish for with eagerness; to desire possession of; -- used in a good sen Covet earnestly the best gifts. 1. Cor. xxii. 31. If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul alive. Shak. 2. To long for inordinately or unlawfully; to hanker after (something forbidden). Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house. Ex. xx. 17. Syn: To long for; desire; hanker after; crave.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of COVET)

• Grudge
• Spare
• retain
• covet
• envy
• withhold

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of COVET)

• Spend
• squander
• waste
• lavish
• scatter
• expend
• pour
• indulge
• vent

Related words: (words related to COVET)

• WASTEL
  A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. Chaucer. The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. Sir W. Scott.
• LAVISHNESS
  The quality or state of being lavish.
• WASTETHRIFT
  A spendthrift.
• SPENDTHRIFT
  One who spends money profusely or improvidently; a prodigal; one who lavishes or wastes his estate. Also used figuratively. A woman who was a generous spendthrift of life. Mrs. R. H. Davis.
• LAVISHER
  One who lavishes.
• SPENDER
  One who spends; esp., one who spends lavishly; a prodigal; a spendthrift.
• WASTEBOARD
  See 3
• SQUANDER
  scatter, to squander, Prov. E. swatter, Dan. sqvatte, Sw. sqvätta to squirt, sqvättra to squander, Icel. skvetta to squirt out, to throw 1. To scatter; to disperse. Our squandered troops he rallies. Dryden. 2. To spend lavishly or profusely;
• RETAINMENT
  The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More.
• GRUDGEONS; GURGEONS
  Coarse meal.
• SPENDTHRIFTY
  Spendthrift; prodigal.
• INDULGEMENT
  Indulgence. Wood.
• COVETIVENESS
  Acquisitiveness.
• SPARE
  1. To use frugally or stintingly, as that which is scarce or valuable; to retain or keep unused; to save. "No cost would he spare." Chaucer. thy Father's dreadful thunder didst not spare. Milton. He that hath knowledge, spareth his words. Prov.
• INDULGENCE
  Remission of the temporal punishment due to sins, after the guilt of sin has been remitted by sincere repentance; absolution from the censures and public penances of the church. It is a payment of the debt of justice to God by the application of
• WASTE
  the kindred German word; cf. OHG. wuosti, G. wüst, OS. w, D. woest, 1. Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless. The dismal situation waste and wild. Milton. His heart became appalled as he gazed forward into
• WASTEFUL
  1. Full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous; as; wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses. 2. Expending, or tending to expend, property, or that which is valuable, in a needless or useless manner; lavish; prodigal; as, a wasteful
• WITHHOLD
  1. To hold back; to restrain; to keep from action. Withhold, O sovereign prince, your hasty hand From knitting league with him. Spenser. 2. To retain; to keep back; not to grant; as, to withhold assent to a proposition. Forbid who will, none shall
• SCATTERLING
  One who has no fixed habitation or residence; a vagabond. "Foreign scatterlings." Spenser.
• INDULGENTLY
  In an indulgent manner; mildly; favorably. Dryden.
• ALKALI WASTE
  Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.
• BESCATTER
  1. To scatter over. 2. To cover sparsely by scattering ; to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser.
• OVERWASTED
  Wasted or worn out; Drayton.
• TRANSPARENT
  transparere to be transparent; L. trans across, through + parere to 1. Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent
• DESPEND
  To spend; to squander. See Dispend. Some noble men in Spain can despend Howell.
• MISSPEND
  To spend amiss or for wrong purposes; to aquander; to waste; as, to misspend time or money. J. Philips.
• FOREWASTE
  See GASCOIGNE
• SLAVISH
  Of or pertaining to slaves; such as becomes or befits a slave; servile; excessively laborious; as, a slavish life; a slavish dependance on the great. -- Slav"ish*ly, adv. -- Slav"ish*ness, n.