GREEDY
\ɡɹˈiːdi], \ɡɹˈiːdi], \ɡ_ɹ_ˈiː_d_i]\
Definitions of GREEDY
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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Having a keen desire for anything; vehemently desirous; eager to obtain; avaricious; as, greedy of gain.
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Having a keen appetite for food or drink; ravenous; voracious; very hungry; - followed by of; as, a lion that is greedy of his prey.
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Having a keen desire for anything; vehemently desirous; eager to obtain; avaricious; as, greedy of gain.
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Having a keen appetite for food or drink; ravenous; voracious; very hungry; - followed by of; as, a lion that is greedy of his prey.
By Noah Webster.
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Greediness.
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Excessively eager for food or drink; selfish; avaricious.
By James Champlin Fernald
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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