different between greeny vs greedy

English

Etymology

green +? -y

Pronunciation

Noun

greeny (plural greenies)

1. Alternative form of greenie

Adjective

greeny (comparative greenier, superlative greeniest)

1. greenish; somewhat green
   • 1928 (October), Boys' Life (page 15)

     When we get them off their guard we have got to paint that red 'T' the greeniest green that ever came out of a greenhouse.

   • 1941, Emily Carr, Klee Wyck, Chapter 6, ^[1]

     Resentment showed in his face, greeny-brown and wrinkled like a baked apple,—resentment that white folks should pry into matters wholly Indian.

   • "And my eyes are weird green grey. More greeny blue in daylight." — ^[2]

Anagrams

• energy, greyen, gyrene

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)

1. Having greed; consumed by selfish desires.
2. Prone to overeat.
3. (regular expressions) Tending to match as much text as possible.

   Antonyms: lazy, nongreedy, reluctant

4. (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