different between craving vs greedy
craving
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k?e?.v??/
- Rhymes: -e?v??
Etymology 1
From Middle English cravinge, from Old English crafing (“claim, demand”); equivalent to crave +? -ing.
Noun
craving (plural cravings)
- A strong desire; yearning.
Descendants
- Jamaican Creole: craven
Translations
Etymology 2
From crave.
Verb
craving
- present participle of crave
Further reading
- craving in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- craving in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- carving
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greedy
English
Etymology
From Middle English gredy, from Old English gr?di? (“greedy, hungry, eager”), from Proto-Germanic *gr?dagaz (“hungry”), from Proto-Germanic *gr?daz, *gr?duz, *gr?dô (“hunger”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?r?d?- (“to be hungry, long for”), equivalent to greed +? -y. Cognate with Old Saxon gr?dag (“greedy”), Dutch graag (“gladly, willingly”), Old High German gr?tag (“greedy”), Danish grådig (“greedy”), Norwegian Bokmål grådig (“greedy”) (from Old Norse gráðigr (“greedy”), gráði (“greed, hunger”)), Gothic ???????????????????????????? (gr?dags, “hungry”). Non-Germanic cognates include Sanskrit ?????? (g?ddhi, “greed”), Albanian ngordh (“to crave for, starve, die”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???i?di/
- Rhymes: -i?di
Adjective
greedy (comparative greedier, superlative greediest)
- Having greed; consumed by selfish desires.
- Prone to overeat.
- (regular expressions) Tending to match as much text as possible.
- Antonyms: lazy, nongreedy, reluctant
- (computer science, of an algorithm) That tries to find the global optimum by finding the local optimum at each stage.
- Antonym: nongreedy
Synonyms
- (having greed): Thesaurus:greedy
- (prone to overeat): gluttonous
Derived terms
- greed (by back-formation)
- greediness
- greedyguts
- overgreedy
Descendants
- Sranan Tongo: gridi
Translations
Further reading
- greedy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- greedy in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- greyed
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