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Adjective greedy has 3 senses
- avaricious, covetous, grabby, grasping, greedy, prehensile - 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"
Antonym: unacquisitive (indirect, via acquisitive)
- avid, devouring, esurient, 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"
Antonyms: undesirous, undesiring (indirect, via desirous)
- greedy - wanting to eat or drink more than one can reasonably consume; "don't be greedy with the cookies"
Antonym: abstemious (indirect, via gluttonous)
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