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covetest

covetest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of covet.

Meaning of covet

Verb

covet (third-person singular simple present covets, present participle coveting, simple past and past participle coveted)

  1. (transitive) To wish for with eagerness; to desire possession of, often enviously.
    • What Netflix really covets is closer to its current competencies: WBD's “intellectual property”, or in plain English, franchises such as Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, Friends, pictured, and The Sopranos.2025 December 6, “Netflix’s WBD deal swaps history for fantasy”, in FT Weekend (Lex section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 24
  2. (transitive) To long for inordinately or unlawfully; to hanker after (something forbidden).
  3. (intransitive) To yearn; to have or indulge an inordinate desire, especially for another's possession.
    • No! He covets. That is his nature. And how do we begin to covet, Clarice? Do we seek out things to covet? Make an effort to answer now.1991, Ted Tally, The Silence of the Lambs (motion picture), spoken by Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins)

Origin of covetest

covet + -est

Questions about covetest

What is covetest the second-person singular simple present indicative of?
Covetest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of covet.

Words near covetest in the dictionary

  1. covetedness
  2. coveteousness
  3. coveter
  4. coveters
  5. covetess
  6. covetest
  7. coveteth
  8. coveting
  9. covetingly
  10. covetings
  11. covetious

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Adapted from Wiktionary: covetest (page history and authors); covet (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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