Word Meanings - CUPIDITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
cupidus longing, desiring, fr. cupere to long for, desire. See 1. A passionate desire; love. 2. Eager or inordinate desire, especially for wealth; greed of gain; avarice; covetousness. With the feelings of political distrust were mingled those
Additional info about word: CUPIDITY
cupidus longing, desiring, fr. cupere to long for, desire. See 1. A passionate desire; love. 2. Eager or inordinate desire, especially for wealth; greed of gain; avarice; covetousness. With the feelings of political distrust were mingled those of cupidity and envy, as the Spaniard saw the fairest provinces of the south still in the hands of the accursed race of Ishmael. Prescott.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CUPIDITY)
- Avarice
- Greed
- cupidity
- rapacity
- penuriousness
- niggardliness
- miserliness
- stinginess
- covetousness
- acquisitiveness
- griping
- greediness
- Avidity
- Cupidity
- avarice
- desire
- greed
- longing
- eagerness
Related words: (words related to CUPIDITY)
- LONG-SUFFERANCE
Forbearance to punish or resent. - GREENLANDER
A native of Greenland. - GREETING
Expression of kindness or joy; salutation at meeting; a compliment from one absent. Write to him . . . gentle adieus and greetings. Shak. Syn. -- Salutation; salute; compliment. - GREENLET
l. One of numerous species of small American singing birds, of the genus Vireo, as the solitary, or blue-headed (Vireo solitarius); the brotherly-love ; the warbling greenlet ; the yellow-throated greenlet and others. See Vireo. 2. Any species - GRENADO
See GRENADE - LONGIPALP
One of a tribe of beetles, having long maxillary palpi. - LONGSPUN
Spun out, or extended, to great length; hence, long-winded; tedious. The longspun allegories fulsome grow, While the dull moral lies too plain below. Addison. - GREENSAND
A variety of sandstone, usually imperfectly consolidated, consisting largely of glauconite, a silicate of iron and potash of a green color, mixed with sand and a trace of phosphate of lime. Note: Greensand is often called marl, because - GREENFISH
See POLLOCK - GREENOCKITE
Native cadmium sulphide, a mineral occurring in yellow hexagonal crystals, also as an earthy incrustation. - LONGSOME
Extended in length; tiresome. Bp. Hall. Prior. -- Long"some*ness, n. Fuller. - LONGULITE
A kind of crystallite having a acicular form. - GREAT-HEARTED
1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble. - GREAT-GRANDFATHER
The father of one's grandfather or grandmother. - GREENHOUSE
A house in which tender plants are cultivated and sheltered from the weather. - GREENWEED
See GREENBROOM - GREASINESS
The quality or state of being greasy, oiliness; unctuousness; grossness. - LONGSHORE
Belonging to the seashore or a seaport; along and on the shore. "Longshore thieves." R. Browning. - GRIPPLE
A grasp; a gripe. Spenser. - GREENHORN
A raw, inexperienced person; one easily imposed upon. W. Irving. - ARM-GRET
Great as a man's arm. A wreath of gold, arm-gret. Chaucer. - AGGREGATOR
One who aggregates. - SANGRAAL; SANGREAL
See GRAIL - DISAGREEABLENESS
The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness. - UNPEDIGREED
Not distinguished by a pedigree. Pollok. - INGREAT
To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby. - REGREDE
To go back; to retrograde, as the apsis of a planet's orbit. Todhunter. - AMBERGREASE
See AMBERGRIS - RETROGRESS
Retrogression. H. Spenser. - OVERGREEDY
Excessively greedy. - CONGRESSIVE
Encountering, or coming together. Sir T. Browne.