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  Avaricious \Av`a*ri"cious\ ([a^]v`[.a]*r[i^]sh"[u^]s), a. [Cf.
     F. avaricieux.]
     Actuated by avarice; greedy of gain; immoderately desirous of
     accumulating property.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     Syn: Greedy; stingy; rapacious; griping; sordid; close.
  
     Usage: Avaricious, Covetous, Parsimonious, Penurious,
            Miserly, Niggardly. The avaricious eagerly desire
            wealth with a view to hoard it. The covetous grasp
            after it at the expense of others, though not of
            necessity with a design to save, since a man may be
            covetous and yet a spendthrift. The penurious,
            parsimonious, and miserly save money by disgraceful
            self-denial, and the niggardly by meanness in their
            dealing with others. We speak of persons as covetous
            in getting, avaricious in retaining, parsimonious in
            expending, penurious or miserly in modes of living,
            niggardly in dispensing.
            [1913 Webster] -- Av`a*ri"cious*ly, adv. --
            Av`a*ri"cious*ness, n.
            [1913 Webster]

  Avaricious \Av`a*ri"cious\, a. [Cf. F. avaricieux.]
     Actuated by avarice; greedy of gain; immoderately desirous of
     accumulating property.
  
     Syn: Greedy; stingy; rapacious; griping; sordid; close.
  
     Usage: Avaricious, Covetous, Parsimonious, Penurious,
            Miserly, Niggardly. The avaricious eagerly grasp
            after it at the expense of others, though not of
            necessity with a design to save, since a man may be
            covetous and yet a spendthrift. The penurious,
            parsimonious, and miserly save money by disgraceful
            self-denial, and the niggardly by meanness in their
            dealing with others. We speak of persons as covetous
            in getting, avaricious in retaining, parsimonious in
            expending, penurious or miserly in modes of living,
            niggardly in dispensing. -- Av`a*ri"cious*ly, adv.
            -- Av`a*ri"cious*ness, n.

  avaricious
       adj : 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:
              covetous, grabby, grasping, greedy, prehensile]

  avaricious
     a.
     actuate by avarice; extremely greedy for wealth or material gain;
  immoderately desirous of accumulate property.

  avaricious
     a.
     actuate by avarice; extremely greedy for wealth or material gain;
  immoderately desirous of accumulate property.

  avaricious
     a.
     actuate by avarice; extremely greedy for wealth or material gain;
  immoderately desirous of accumulate property.

  avaricious
     a.
     actuate by avarice; extremely greedy for wealth or material gain;
  immoderately desirous of accumulate property.

  avaricious
     Englanti a.
     ahne

  avaricious
     Engelska a.
     girig; glupsk, sniken

  Avaricious /ˌavəɹˈɪʃəs/
  طمّاع

  avaricious //ˌævəˈɹɪʃəs// 
  алчен, користолюбив
  actuated by avarice

  avaricious /ˌavəɹˈɪʃəs/ 
  lakotný

  avaricious /ˌavəɹˈɪʃəs/ 
  lakomý

  avaricious /ˌavəɹˈɪʃəs/ 
  skoupý

  avaricious /ˌavəɹˈɪʃəs/ 
  hrabivý

  avaricious /ˌavəɹˈɪʃəs/
  gierig, habgierig, habsüchtig [veraltet] , raffgierig [veraltet]
           Note: Person, begehrlich, begierig 
           Note: Gefühlsregung
     Synonyms: grasping, greedy, grabby, covetous
  
   see: driven by money, money-hungry, cash-hungry
  
           Note: of a person

  avaricious /ˌavəɹˈɪʃəs/
  
  φιλάργυρος

  avaricious //ˌævəˈɹɪʃəs// 
  ahne
  actuated by avarice

  avaricious /ævəriʃəs/
  avare, avaricieux

  avaricious /ˌavəɹˈɪʃəs/
  gramziv, pohlepan, škrt

  avaricious /ˌavəɹˈɪʃəs/
  1. fukar
  2. bírvágyó
  3. zsugori
  4. mohó
  5. fösvény
  6. pénzsóvár
  7. szûkmarkú
  8. kapzsi

  avaricious /ˌavəɹˈɪʃəs/
  avaro

  avaricious //ˌævəˈɹɪʃəs// 
  強欲
  actuated by avarice

  avaricious /ævəriʃəs/
  avarus

  avaricious /ˌævəˈrɪʃəs/ 
    chciwy

  avaricious /ævəriʃəs/
  avarento, avaro

  avaricious //ˌævəˈɹɪʃəs// 
  girig
  actuated by avarice

  61 Moby Thesaurus words for "avaricious":
     a hog for, acquisitive, all-devouring, avid, bottomless, cheap,
     close, closefisted, coveting, covetous, devouring, esurient,
     gluttonous, gobbling, grabby, grasping, greedy, hardfisted,
     hoggish, illiberal, insatiable, insatiate, limitless, mean,
     mercenary, miserly, money-hungry, money-mad, near, niggardly,
     omnivorous, overgreedy, parsimonious, penny-pinching, penurious,
     piggish, pinchfisted, pinching, quenchless, rapacious, ravening,
     ravenous, save-all, selfish, slakeless, sordid, stingy, swinish,
     tight, tight-fisted, tightfisted, unappeasable, unappeased,
     ungenerous, unquenchable, unsated, unsatisfied, unslakeable,
     unslaked, venal, voracious
  
  

  n. 贪财的,贪婪的;

     a. 贪婪的,贪得无厌的