Definition of greediest Greediest
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What does greediest mean?
Part of speech
🔤- greediest, adjective, superlative of greedy.
WordNet
Adjectivegreedy, greedier, greediest |
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| greedy - wanting to eat or drink more than one can reasonably consume; "don't be greedy with the cookies" | ||
| gluttonous given to excess in consumption of especially food or drink; "over-fed women and their gluttonous husbands"; "a gluttonous debauch"; "a gluttonous appetite for food and praise and pleasure" | ||
| greedy - immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth; "they are avaricious and will do anything for money"; "casting covetous eyes on his neighbor's fields"; "a grasping old miser"; "grasping commercialism"; "greedy for money and power"; "grew richer and greedier"; "prehensile employers stingy with raises for their employees" | ||
| avaricious, covetous, grabby, grasping, prehensile | ||
| acquisitive eager to acquire and possess things especially material possessions or ideas; "an acquisitive mind"; "an acquisitive society in which the craving for material things seems never satisfied" | ||
| greedy - (often followed by `for') ardently or excessively desirous; "avid for adventure"; "an avid ambition to succeed"; "fierce devouring affection"; "the esurient eyes of an avid curiosity"; "greedy for fame" | ||
| avid, devouring, esurient | ||
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Wiktionary 
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- greedy (superl.)
Having a keen appetite for food or drink; ravenous; voracious; very hungry; -- followed by of; as, a lion that is greedy of his prey. - greedy (superl.)
Having a keen desire for anything; vehemently desirous; eager to obtain; avaricious; as, greedy of gain.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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greedy
Excessively desirous of something. -
greedy
Excessively desirous of money, wealth or possessions.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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greedy
grēd′i, adj. having a voracious appetite: covetous: eagerly desirous.—n. Greed, an eager desire or longing: covetousness.—adv. Greed′ily.—n. Greed′iness. [A.S. grǽdig; Dut. gretig.]
