avaricious

Synonyms

free gentle refined polished generous bountiful catholic enlarged copious ample profuse large handsome munificent abundant noble-minded bounteous tolerant plentiful

Antonyms

churlish low mean boorish ungenerous illiberal grasping niggardly avaricious greedy gainful narrow-minded bigoted prejudiced contracted scanty inadequate

Av`a*ri"cious, a. Etym: [Cf. F. avaricieux.] Defn: Actuated by avarice; greedy of gain; immoderately desirous of accumulating property. Syn. -- Greedy; stingy; rapacious; griping; sordid; close. -- Avaricious, Covetous, Parsimonious, Penurious, Miserly, Niggardly. The avaricious eagerly grasp after it at the expense of others, though not of necessity with a design to save, since a man may be covetous and yet a spendthrift. The penurious, parsimonious, and miserly save money by disgraceful self-denial, and the niggardly by meanness in their dealing with others. We speak of persons as covetous in getting, avaricious in retaining, parsimonious in expending, penurious or miserly in modes of living, niggardly in dispensing. -- Av`a*ri"cious*ly, adv -- Av`a*ri"cious*ness, n.

avaricious - Similar Words

varicous vicious various avarous vermicious capricious varicose ovarious caricous avidious