Covetous

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Covetous \Cov"et*ous\ (k?v"?t-?s), a. [OF. coveitos, F.
     convoiteux. See {Covet}, v. t.]
     1. Very desirous; eager to obtain; -- used in a good sense.
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              Covetous of wisdom and fair virtue.   --Shak.
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              Covetous death bereaved us all,
              To aggrandize one funeral.            --Emerson.
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     2. Inordinately desirous; excessively eager to obtain and
        possess (esp. money); avaricious; -- in a bad sense.
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              The covetous person lives as if the world were
              madealtogether for him, and not he for the world.
                                                    --South.
  
     Syn: Avaricious; parsimonious; penurious; misrely; niggardly.
          See {Avaricious}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  covetous
       adj 1: showing extreme cupidity; painfully desirous of another's
              advantages; "he was never covetous before he met her";
              "jealous of his success and covetous of his
              possessions"; "envious of their art collection" [syn:
              {envious}, {jealous}]
       2: 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" [syn: {avaricious},
           {grabby}, {grasping}, {greedy}, {prehensile}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  31 Moby Thesaurus words for "covetous":
     acquisitive, assembly, avid, band, bevy, bunch, cluster, covey,
     crew, desirous, eager, envious, esurient, gluttonous, grabby,
     grasping, greedy, grudging, hoggish, itchy, jealous, keen,
     lickerish, party, piggish, prehensile, rapacious, ravenous,
     selfish, swinish, voracious