What does the Bible say about greedy?
The Bible says greed is a sin. Greed is the want or desire to have more of something. Normally people can be greedy with money or possessions. Greedy people are never happy with what they have. They always want more and more. Jesus warns us about greed in the Bible.
What does greedy stand for?
What does greedy stand for? 1 : marked by greed : having or showing a selfish desire for wealth and possessions greedy creditors. 2 : eager, keen greedy for fame. 3 : having a strong desire for food or drink a predator greedy of its prey.
What is an antonym for greed?
Synonyms for GREEDY: acquisitive, avaricious, avid, coveting, covetous, grabby, grasping, mercenary; Antonyms for GREEDY: apathetic, indifferent, uneager, unenthusiastic
Is greedy an adverb?
greedily adverb /ˈɡriːdɪli/ /ˈɡriːdɪli/ (disapproving) in a way that shows that you want more money, power, food, etc. than you really need She ate noisily and greedily. Want to learn more? Find out which words work together and produce more natural sounding English with the Oxford Collocations Dictionary app. Check pronunciation: greedily
What are antonyms of greedy?
antonyms for greedyabstemious.benevolent.charitable.extravagant.generous.liberal.philanthropic.
What is the antonym of greedily?
The opposite of being greedy is being generous—being willing to give away one's money or possessions instead of being obsessed with acquiring more.
What is the synonym of greedy?
Some common synonyms of greedy are acquisitive, avaricious, covetous, and grasping. While all these words mean "having or showing a strong desire for especially material possessions," greedy stresses lack of restraint and often of discrimination in desire.
What is word antonyms?
Updated on August 22, 2022 · Grammar. An antonym is a word that means the opposite of another word. For example, hot and cold are antonyms, as are good and bad.
What are the antonyms of antonyms?
Even antonym has an antonym! The opposite of antonym is synonym, which is a word that has the same meaning as another word.
What is another word for most greedily?
greedilycannily.illiberally.meanly.miserly.parsimoniously.stingily.ungenerously.
What is mean by greedily?
1 : marked by greed : having or showing a selfish desire for wealth and possessions greedy creditors. 2 : eager, keen greedy for fame. 3 : having a strong desire for food or drink a predator greedy of its prey.
What is the noun of greedily?
giftedly, adverbgiftedness, noun.
antonyms for greedy
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How to use greedy in a sentence
In an interview you did with 60 Minutes around this time, you write that Lesley Stahl had said that most Americans see big corporations as greedy and selfish.
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What does "devore" mean in Latin?
And talking of DEVOURING, that’s another useful synonym for greedy: someone who is voracious or greedy for something might be described as devouring, which is ultimately from another Latin word meaning to swallow or gulp something .
What does "gluttonous" mean?
GLUTTONOUS is a word which relates specifically to eating, but can be used to describe someone who is greedy in their appetites , i.e., someone who eats to excess. Someone who does this is a glutton, a word derived from the Latin meaning to gulp or swallow down.
What does "hogish" mean?
As the word suggests, HOGGISH means ‘having the characteristics of a hog or pig’, but given pigs’ associations with a whole host of undesirable traits, this means that hoggish can variously mean lazy, dirty, slovenly, selfish, self-indulgent, or greedy.
What does "voracious" mean in a book?
VORACIOUS is a similar term, but it tends to refer more specifically to the action of eating with greediness, so one might eat a meal voraciously. The word is also used figuratively of other things, such as books, such as when a person describes themselves as ‘a voracious reader’: we ‘devour’ books much as devour a meal. Indeed, the word is from the Latin for ‘devour’. Not to be confused with veracious, which means ‘true’ or ‘truthful’.
What does the word "ravenous" mean?
RAVENOUS is from the Latin ravin meaning to ‘plunder’ or ‘carry off’ something: it’s used especially of birds of prey or other predatory animals hunting and carrying off another. The idea is that if you’re really hungry or greedy for something, you’re willing to go to extreme lengths to satisfy that hunger or greed.
What does "esurient" mean?
ESURIENT is a rare word from the Latin, meaning ‘to be hungry’ . Esurience is hunger. The great Roman satirist Juvenal used a phrase, Græculus esuriens, which meant ‘hungry young Greeks’; influenced by this line, some people use esurient to mean ‘greedy’. The term has been in use in English since the seventeenth century.
What does it mean to be avaricious?
AVARICIOUS means ‘greedy for gain’ , and is usually (though not exclusively) applied to wealth rather than eating. An avaricious person has an excessive desire to accumulate riches and they don’t care who they have to step over to acquire it. This term has been around since the fifteenth century. Another word for it is GRASPING.
