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cupidity
English
Etymology
From French cupidité, from Latin cupidit?s (“strong desire”), from cupidus (“keen, desirous”). Compare Cupid.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /kju??p?d?ti/
Noun
cupidity (countable and uncountable, plural cupidities)
- Extreme greed, especially for wealth.
- 1857, Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers, Volume the First, page 11 ?ISBN
- His affairs, however, were not allowed to subside thus quietly, and people were quite as much inclined to talk about the disinterested sacrifice he had made, as they had before been to upbraid him for his cupidity.
- 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 784:
- It was easy to dissimulate and disperse these modest purchases in such a way as not to excite the cupidity of any passing patrols.
- 1857, Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers, Volume the First, page 11 ?ISBN
Synonyms
- (extreme greed): avarice, covetousness; see also Thesaurus:greed
Related terms
- cupid
Translations
Anagrams
- pudicity
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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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