Word Meanings - COVETOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Very desirous; eager to obtain; -- used in a good sense. Covetous of wisdom and fair virtue. Shak. Covetous death bereaved us all, To aggrandize one funeral. Emerson. 2. Inordinately desirous; excessively eager to obtain and possess
Additional info about word: COVETOUS
1. Very desirous; eager to obtain; -- used in a good sense. Covetous of wisdom and fair virtue. Shak. Covetous death bereaved us all, To aggrandize one funeral. Emerson. 2. Inordinately desirous; excessively eager to obtain and possess ; avaricious; -- in a bad sense. The covetous person lives as if the world were madealtogether for him, and not he for the world. South. Syn. -- Avaricious; parsimonious; penurious; misrely; niggardly. See Avaricious.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of COVETOUS)
- Jealous
- Envious
- self-anxious
- covetous
- invidious
- suspicious
- Sordid
- Dirty
- filthy
- foul
- gross
- vile
- base
- mean
- avaricious
- selfish
- venal
- niggardly
- beggarly
- closefisted
- hidebound
- greedy
Related words: (words related to COVETOUS)
- SORDIDNESS
The quality or state of being sordid. - SELFISHLY
In a selfish manner; with regard to private interest only or chiefly. - JEALOUSHOOD
Jealousy. Shak. - BEGGARLY
1. In the condition of, or like, a beggar; suitable for a beggar; extremely indigent; poverty-stricken; mean; poor; contemptible. "A bankrupt, beggarly fellow." South. "A beggarly fellowship." Swift. "Beggarly elements." Gal. iv. 9. 2. Produced - SELFISHNESS
The quality or state of being selfish; exclusive regard to one's own interest or happiness; that supreme self-love or self- preference which leads a person to direct his purposes to the advancement of his own interest, power, or happiness, without - INVIDIOUS
1. Envious; malignant. Evelyn. 2. Worthy of envy; desirable; enviable. Such a person appeareth in a far more honorable and invidious state than any prosperous man. Barrow. 3. Likely to incur or produce ill will, or to provoke envy; hateful; as, - CLOSEFISTED
Covetous; niggardly. Bp. Berkeley. "Closefisted contractors." Hawthorne. - SORDID
1. Filthy; foul; dirty. A sordid god; down from his hoary chin A length of beard descends, uncombed, unclean. Dryden. 2. Vile; base; gross; mean; as, vulgar, sordid mortals. "To scorn the sordid world." Milton. 3. Meanly avaricious; covetous; - JEALOUS
zelosus zealous, fr. zelus emulation, zeal, jealousy, Gr. Zeal, and 1. Zealous; solicitous; vigilant; anxiously watchful. I have been very jeolous for the Lord God of hosts. Kings xix. 10. How nicely jealous is every one of us of his own repute! - SUSPICIOUS
1. Inclined to suspect; given or prone to suspicion; apt to imagine without proof. Nature itself, after it has done an injury, will ever be suspicious; and no man can love the person he suspects. South. Many mischievous insects are daily at work - ENVIOUS
1. Malignant; mischievous; spiteful. Each envious brier his weary legs doth scratch. Shak. 2. Feeling or exhibiting envy; actuated or directed by, or proceeding from, envy; -- said of a person, disposition, feeling, act, etc.; jealously pained - GREEDY-GUT
A glutton. Todd. - GROSSULAR
Pertaining too, or resembling, a gooseberry; as, grossular garnet. (more info) of Ribes, including the gooseberry, fr. F. groseille. See - JEALOUSNESS
State or quality of being jealous. - VENALITY
The quality or state of being venal, or purchasable; mercenariness; prostitution of talents, offices, or services, for money or reward; as, the venality of a corrupt court; the venality of an official. Complaints of Roman venality became louder. - GROSS-HEADED
Thick-skulled; stupid. - AVARICIOUS
Actuated by avarice; greedy of gain; immoderately desirous of accumulating property. Syn. -- Greedy; stingy; rapacious; griping; sordid; close. -- Avaricious, Covetous, Parsimonious, Penurious, Miserly, Niggardly. The avaricious eagerly grasp after - HIDEBOUND
Having the bark so close and constricting that it impedes the growth; -- said of trees. Bacon. 3. Untractable; bigoted; obstinately and blindly or stupidly conservative. Milton. Carlyle. 4. Niggardly; penurious. Quarles. (more info) 1. Having - COVETOUSLY
In a covetous manner. - COVETOUS
1. Very desirous; eager to obtain; -- used in a good sense. Covetous of wisdom and fair virtue. Shak. Covetous death bereaved us all, To aggrandize one funeral. Emerson. 2. Inordinately desirous; excessively eager to obtain and possess - OVERGREEDY
Excessively greedy. - RAVENALA
A genus of plants related to the banana. Note: Ravenala Madagascariensis, the principal species, is an unbranched tree with immense oarlike leaves growing alternately from two sides of the stem. The sheathing bases of the leafstalks collect and - INGROSS
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