greed

Plural: greeds

Noun

• Excessive desire for gain or wealth or possessions.
• excessive desire to acquire or possess more (especially more material wealth) than one needs or deserves
• reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)
• A selfish or excessive desire for more than is needed or deserved, especially of money, wealth, food, or other possessions.

Verb

• To desire in a greedy manner, or to act on such a desire.

Examples

• His greed for triple word scores often led him to hoard high-value tiles in Scrabble.
• His greed was his undoing.

Synonyms

avarice, avaritia, covetousness, rapacity, Mammon, covetise, cupidity, gluttony, greed, greediness

Antonyms

charity

Related Words

envy, glutton, greedy, voracious