adjective. Having or showing a strong or excessive desire to acquire money or possess things, especially wishing to possess more than what one needs or deserves.

adjective. Having or showing a desire to eat or drink in large or excessive amounts.

adjective. Extremely eager or desirous for an activity or pursuit.

Having an inordinate desire for food or drink; ravenous; voracious; very hungry.

Synonyms Insatiate, insatiable, rapacious, gluttonous.

adjective. Having a keen appetite for food or drink; ravenous; voracious; very hungry; -- followed by of.

adjective. Having a keen desire for anything; vehemently desirous; eager to obtain; avaricious.

adjective. Having greed; consumed by selfish desires.

adjective. Prone to overeat.

adjective. Tending to match as much text as possible.

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

adjective. wanting to eat or drink more than one can reasonably consume

adjective. immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth

"I should suggest that it means not merely "_recipient_, capable of receiving," but, to coin a word, _captatious_, eager or greedy to receive, absorbing; as we say _avidum mare_, or a _greedy gulf_."

generous  

acquisitive  desirous  gluttonous  wishful  

greed  greediness  greedy-guts  

Edi  Leidy  Midi  beady  beedie  

ambitious  arrogant  corrupt  cowardly  hungry  

Apician  a hog for  acquiring  acquisitive  all-devouring  

greedier  greediest