Greedy

Word GREEDY
Character 6
Hyphenation greed y
Pronunciations /ˈɡɹiːdi/

Definitions and meanings of "Greedy"

What do we mean by greedy?

Having or showing a strong or excessive desire to acquire money or possess things, especially wishing to possess more than what one needs or deserves. adjective

Having or showing a desire to eat or drink in large or excessive amounts. adjective

Extremely eager or desirous for an activity or pursuit. adjective

Having an inordinate desire for food or drink; ravenous; voracious; very hungry.

Synonyms Insatiate, insatiable, rapacious, gluttonous.

Having a keen appetite for food or drink; ravenous; voracious; very hungry; -- followed by of. adjective

Having a keen desire for anything; vehemently desirous; eager to obtain; avaricious. adjective

Having greed; consumed by selfish desires. adjective

Prone to overeat. adjective

Tending to match as much text as possible. adjective

(often followed by `for') ardently or excessively desirous adjective

Wanting to eat or drink more than one can reasonably consume adjective

Immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth adjective

Having greed; consumed by selfish desires.

Prone to overeat.

Tending to match as much text as possible.

(of an algorithm) That tries to find the global optimum by finding the local optimum at each stage.

BEiNg A gOoD tImE Lad (WordGirl: Season 2 Episode 24: Lady Redundant Woman Gets The Blues) This word defines an 8-10 year old with blue hair and a crown on his head who is being greedy and hits other people with lollies and speaks with a much better accent than Tobey Urban Dictionary

1. To want more and more than what you really need. 2. When a ping pong game is really close, getting greedy refers to taking huge risks in order to gain a point. Urban Dictionary

A woman who has the look that shes always up for a bit of jiggery pokery (sex), basically she looks like filth. Urban Dictionary

I. (slang) (adj) Greedy is a slang term used primarily by girls to describe rivals to their potential mates. It is most commonly used as a mild racial slur, but can extend into other meanings as well. For example, a black woman would label a white woman who dates primarily black men as greedy. Basically implying that the white girl is not satisfied with the over-abundance of potential white suitors at her disposal, and has begun dating black men when she really has no reason to. Again, a straight woman might label a lesbian or bisexual woman as greedy, if she catches said woman dating a man she finds attractive. This term might also be applied to a gay man, if his current boyfriend is bisexual, and extremely attractive Though this usage is rare. ii. (n) Greedy is also a sexual orientation. (see bisexual) iii. (adj)Somebody who is rarely satisfied with what they already have. Urban Dictionary

To Want Both sexes as opposed to just male or Femal, Bisexual. Urban Dictionary

Someone who is bisexual Urban Dictionary

See the word moral Urban Dictionary

When you hit putrid avatar 3 times instead of 2 Urban Dictionary

1. Want more and more than what you actually need. Urban Dictionary

To want everything , never shares . its all about them . a live ass person . Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Greedy

The word "greedy" in example sentences

I should suggest that it means not merely "_recipient_, capable of receiving," but, to coin a word, _captatious_, eager or greedy to receive, absorbing; as we say _avidum mare_, or a _greedy gulf_. ❋ Various (N/A)

Nick Robinson: "I think the word greedy was shouted out" ❋ Unknown (2011)

He's been very, very tough on what he calls the greedy, the CEOs that are making hundreds of millions dollars a year. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The continent's two biggest economies want the rest of the developed world to join them in cracking down on what they call greedy bankers. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Politicians laud new policy as “reining in greedy corporations” – People BELIEVE it (!?) 6. ❋ Unknown (2009)

When teachers are called greedy and the jobless are called lazy. ❋ Brent Budowsky (2011)

Paul: The allegation that Jews are greedy is based on perceptions of cultural values that some believe Jews to possess. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The allegation that Jews are greedy is based on perceptions of cultural values that some believe Jews to possess. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Being short-term greedy, betting the farm, and destroying your firm, it turns out, wasn't against the law. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I know when I was a salesperson, I could take advantage of those who were ignorant of the way we on Wall Street work if I wanted to be short-term greedy. ❋ James J. Cramer (2005)

Mike Martz won't be nominated anytime soon for the Bill Walsh School of Coaching Genius because he just got plain greedy at times. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Social mobility was occurring and small-scale capitalism was developing within a Christian culture which had previously opposed rising above one's rank and had a vested interest in a feudal social system, so Jews became known as greedy, usureres, etc. ❋ Unknown (1993)

I have used the word greedy, but the reader must not suppose that he can change it for that closely kindred one of hungry; for there is here no aspiration, no waiting for better things, but an animal joy in all that comes. ❋ Unknown (1909)

Finally, we may observe that, with recent successes and even in the face of the disaster at Murfreesboro ', the tone of the South has become firmer and firmer, and it is even more emphatic than ever in its exultation at the prospect of being freed from the yoke of what it calls the greedy, hard, usurious Yankee. ❋ Unknown (1863)

They were described as greedy or morally obtuse: they should have seen themselves as privileged to be part of loving households. ❋ By FRED A. BERNSTEIN (2012)

Goldman, in that era, was still a firm guided by investment bankers, sometimes in tandem with traders but always with the motto "long-term greedy" rather than short-term. ❋ Unknown (2011)

And "don't be too proud or short-term greedy to have substantial cash reserves." ❋ Unknown (2011)

And this is the result: A brilliant trade that was so brilliant the Goldman people forgot that it also might be fraud. about how everything it does it does for its clients, and how any profits it ultimately ends up making are just a result of being "long-term greedy". ❋ Felix Salmon (2010)

Person 1: I already made you a [horsey]! Now don’t be greedy! Person 2: What’s greedy mean? Person 2 does a dance. Person 2: Being [a good time] [lad]? Person 2 finishes dance. ❋ Delete This Account Now (2023)

1. [I want that] and that and that and that and that and that... 2. a)Dave--> I should [get greedy] to win! b) Don't get greedy! It's too [risky]! ❋ Benj, Ben & Sue (2004)

She's so greedy she had the [whole] [footy] [team] ❋ Sellers (2005)

USAGE I Latina1: What is Mary doing all over [Hector]? Latina2: That slut is so greedy. Why can't she leave our men alone? Girl1: Isn't [Stacie a] dyke? Why is she going to prom with Derek? What is her problem? Girl2: She is just plain greedy, that's what her problem is. Woman: [Raoul], Why can't you leave Andrew alone and find yourself a real homo? Stop being so greedy!! USAGE II Girl: So, are you gay or straight? Guy: Neither, I'm greedy. USAGE [III] Boy: [Porky] is so greedy. He ate half of that pizza all by himself. I didn't even get a single slice. ❋ Dusk Soldier (2007)

I thought everyone [knew] [angelina jolie] was greedy, she likes the fellas' and the [ladies]. ❋ [TCWG] (2006)

[Hey], [guess who] I [found] out is greedy. ❋ Melissa Munger (2007)

[Yay] for [selfishness]! ❋ A Equals A (2005)

-this guy is greedy-why what did he do? -he hit [putrid] [avatar] 3 times instead of 2 -what [the fuck] are you talking about ❋ Katanow (2022)

Resellers that are selling [Jordan 1] [Mocha] or Jordan 1 University Blue are very [GREEDY] ❋ Stoopidx (2021)

don't be [GREEDY]. [Greedy] some [live] [ass girl] ❋ Greedy Gee (2010)

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