noun
1. an envious eagerness to possess something (Freq. 1)
• Hypernyms: ↑envy, ↑enviousness
2. reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)
• Derivationally related forms: ↑rapacious (for: ↑rapacity), ↑covetous, ↑greedy (for: ↑greed), ↑avaricious (for: ↑avarice)
• Hypernyms: ↑mortal sin, ↑deadly sin
3. extreme greed for material wealth
• Syn: ↑avarice, ↑avariciousness, ↑cupidity
• Derivationally related forms: ↑covetous, ↑avaricious (for: ↑avariciousness), ↑avaricious (for: ↑avarice)
• Hypernyms: ↑greed
Useful english dictionary. 2012.