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avaricious

/ˌævəˈɹɪʃəs/

avaricious adjective: actuated by avarice; extremely greedy for wealth or material gain; immoderately desirous of accumulating property.

Adjective

avaricious (comparative more avaricious, superlative most avaricious)

  1. Actuated by avarice; extremely greedy for wealth or material gain; immoderately desirous of accumulating property.
    • In a word, he was called a hard, avaricious, rapacious man, whose chief business was to enrich himself...1835, Robert Montgomery Bird, The Hawks of Hawk-Hollow
    Synonyms:
    greedy

avaricious meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

avaricious in Hindi

actuated by avarice
लालची lālcī, लोभी lobhī

avaricious in Urdu

بخیل, حریص, لالچی

avaricious in Bengali

অতিলোভী, অত্যুচ্চাকাঙ্ক্ষী

avaricious in Malayalam

ധനലോഭിയായ
More languagesFewer languages
avaricious in Sanskrit
कदर्य kadarya

Synonyms of avaricious

Forms of avaricious

comparativemore avaricious
superlativemost avaricious
alternative formavaritious
alternative formavaricius

Origin of avaricious

From Middle English avaricious, from Old French avaricieux, from avarice, from Latin avaritia (“greed”), from avarus (“greedy”), of avere (“crave, long for”).

Words formed from avaricious

Questions about avaricious

What does avaricious mean?
Avaricious means actuated by avarice; extremely greedy for wealth or material gain; immoderately desirous of accumulating property.
What is avaricious in Hindi?
Avaricious in Hindi is लालची (lālcī), लोभी (lobhī). See Avaricious meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is avaricious?
Avaricious is an adjective.
How do you pronounce avaricious?
Avaricious is pronounced /ˌævəˈɹɪʃəs/.

Words near avaricious in the dictionary

  1. Avarian
  2. Avarians
  3. Avaric
  4. avarice
  5. avarices
  6. avaricious
  7. avariciously
  8. avariciousness
  9. avaricius
  10. avaritious
  11. avarna

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Adapted from Wiktionary: avaricious (page history and authors); avaricious (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); avaricious (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); avaricious (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); कदर्य (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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