COVETOUS Synonyms

• showing extreme cupidity; painfully desirous of another's advantages

• understanding with difficulty

• the act of gripping something firmly with the hands (or the tentacles)

• immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth

• immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth

• (often followed by `for') ardently or excessively desirous

• wanting to eat or drink more than one can reasonably consume

• showing extreme cupidity; painfully desirous of another's advantages

• suspicious or unduly suspicious or fearful of being displaced by a rival

• eager to acquire and possess things especially material possessions or ideas

• marked by materialism

• conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class

• a person hired to fight for another country than their own

• marked by materialism

• serving for wages in a foreign army

• profit oriented

• serving to express or indicate possession

• the case expressing ownership

• desirous of owning

• having or showing a desire to control or dominate

• living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey

• excessively greedy and grasping

• devouring or craving food in great quantities

• immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth

• adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object

• having a keen intellect

• immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth