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avaritious

avaritious is the obsolete form of avaricious.

Meaning of avaricious

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

Questions about avaritious

What is avaritious the obsolete form of?
Avaritious is the obsolete form of avaricious.

Words near avaritious in the dictionary

  1. avarices
  2. avaricious
  3. avariciously
  4. avariciousness
  5. avaricius
  6. avaritious
  7. avarna
  8. avarnas
  9. avarous
  10. avars
  11. Avarua

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