avaricious

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points: 15
Words With Friends: 18
Letters: 10

Pronunciation

/ˌævəˈɹɪʃəs/

Definition of avaricious

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

Actuated by avarice; extremely greedy for wealth or material gain; immoderately desirous of accumulating property.

“In a word, he was called a hard, avaricious, rapacious man, whose chief business was to enrich himself...”

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Etymology

From Middle English avaricious, from Old French avaricieux, from avarice, from Latin avaritia (“greed”), from avarus (“greedy”), of avere (“crave, long for”).

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