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adjectiveinordinately or wrongly desirous of wealth or possessions; greedy. eagerly desirous. Origin of covetousFirst recorded in 1250–1300; Middle English coveitous, from Anglo-French, Old French; see covet, -ous SYNONYMS FOR covetousSEE SYNONYMS FOR covetous ON THESAURUS.COM synonym study for covetous1. See avaricious. OTHER WORDS FROM covetouscov·et·ous·ly, adverbcov·et·ous·ness, nounnon·cov·et·ous, adjectivenon·cov·et·ous·ly, adverb o·ver·cov·et·ous, adjectiveo·ver·cov·et·ous·ly, adverbun·cov·et·ous, adjectiveun·cov·et·ous·ly, adverb Words nearby covetouscover-uncover test, cover-up, cover version, cove stripe, covet, covetous, covetousness, covey, COVID-19, Covilhã, covin Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for covetousDesigner Tomas Maier presented a collection that was rich, sophisticated, and covetous. Milan Fall Fashion Week 2012: Raf Simons’s Last Collection at Jil Sander|Robin Givhan|February 25, 2012|DAILY BEAST He was altogether a fierce, grudging, covetous little creature. Brownies and Bogles|Louise Imogen Guiney I will therefore be the richer by charitable laying out, while the worldling will be poorer by his covetous hoarding up.' Extracts from the Diary and Correspondence of the Late Amos Lawrence; with a brief account of some incidents of his life|Amos Lawrence In the end a covetous man succeeded in wheedling Tchaikov away from us. With the Judans in the Palestine Campaign|J. H. (John Henry) Patterson
We need not look upon the territory now held by Great Britain with a covetous eye. The Seat of Empire|Charles Carleton Coffin Now King Mark was a man of a mean and covetous mind, and he loved not to give money. King Arthur's Knights|Henry Gilbert
British Dictionary definitions for covetous
adjective(usually postpositive and foll by of) jealously eager for the possession of something (esp the property of another person) Derived forms of covetouscovetously, adverbcovetousness, nounCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to covetousacquisitive, avaricious, avid, eager, envious, gluttonous, grasping, green-eyed, itchy, jealous, keen, mercenary, rapacious, ravenous, selfish, voracious, yearning, close-fisted, grabby, piggish |