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greedy

[gree-dee] / ˈgri di /
ADJECTIVE
desiring excessively
Synonyms
STRONGEST
eager hungry impatient rapacious selfish
WEAK
acquisitive avaricious avid carnivorous close close-fisted covetous craving desirous devouring edacious esurient gluttonous gobbling gormandizing grabby grasping grudging gulping guzzling hoggish insatiable insatiate intemperate itchy miserly omnivorous parsimonious penny-pinching penurious piggish prehensile ravening ravenous stingy swinish tight tight-fisted voracious
Antonyms
WEAK
abstemious benevolent charitable extravagant generous liberal philanthropic

Example Sentences

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“Be greedy when others are fearful” is one half of one of Warren Buffett’s most well-known investing maxims.

From Barron's • Mar. 30, 2026

But as famed investor Warren Buffett has said, the time to be greedy is when others are fearful.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 26, 2026

But I’ve tackled enough of it to inform you that, sadly, ignoring Charles Schwab or J. P. Morgan Chase will not make the ghosts of these greedy American business magnates go away.

From Salon • Mar. 24, 2026

Sean O'Brien, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, one of the country's biggest unions, verbally attacked Mullin at a 2023 hearing, calling him a "greedy CEO who pretends like he's self-made".

From BBC • Mar. 18, 2026

“Humans are trouble dressed up pretty. Especially that greedy idiot King Barf-a-hew or whatever his silly name is.”

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.