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Definition/Meaning

(adjective)

showing or having strong desire to have or possess something;

e.g. My covetous neighbor is always trying to steal my lawnmower.

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Similar Words

Acquisitive

Avaricious

Avid

Controlling

Envious

Grabby

Grasping

Greedy

Grudging

Invidious

Jaundiced

Jealous

Materialistic

Mercenary

Rapacious

Resentful

Unreluctant

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Opposite Words

Altruistic

Benevolent

Bounteous

Bountiful

Charitable

Content

Controlled

Free

Fulsome

Generous

Greathearted

Handsome

Kind

Kindhearted

Liberal

Magnanimous

Moderate

Munificent

Nonmaterialistic

Open

Openhanded

Openhearted

Restrained

Satisfied

Selfless

Temperate

Unselfish

Unsparing

Unstinting

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Related Words

Agog

Antsy

Anxious

Ardent

Avaricious

Avid

Begrudging

Cheap

Chintzy

Close

Crazy

Desirous

Discontent

Discontented

Distrustful

Eager

Egocentric

Egotistical

Enthused

Geeked

Gluttonous

Grasping

Great

Greedy

Grudging

Gung ho

Hoggish

Hopped-up

Hot

Hungry

Impatient

Insatiable

Jealous

Juiced

Keen

Lickerish

Malcontent

Malicious

Materialistic

Mean

Mingy

Miserly

Niggard

Niggardly

Nuts

Parsimonious

Penny

Penurious

Petty

Philistine

Piggish

Possessive

Pumped

Rapacious

Raring

Ravenous

Resentful

Self-centered

Self-seeking

Solicitous

Spare

Sparing

Spiteful

Stingy

Stoked

Suspicious

Swinish

Thirsty

Tight

Tightfisted

Uncharitable

Ungenerous

Unquenchable

Unsatisfied

Voracious

Wild

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