I wonder how sometimes language is wise. What can greed be compared to? Synonyms have absolutely nothing to do with it. Greed can be compared with thirst, because the same comprehensive sense of constant lack. Let's talk today about greed, the meaning, origin and, of course, synonyms of the word.
Origin
Naturally, the speech about thirst came for a reason. An etymological dictionary indicates the affinity of these words. Apparently, they have a common ancestor - "zhad". Moreover, in the dialects there is a word that simultaneously means both thirst and greed - this is “jabota”.
Indeed, if you recall the tales and legends, then in the thirst for gold and the thirst for water there is something in common. True, it is difficult to get enough of gold and money, and if a person gets drunk, he no longer needs to. I recall, of course, the tale of the golden antelope. She gave the Raja so much gold that he nearly suffocated. We don’t know how the ruler is, and the viewer definitely learned moral lessons from the plot.
Value and Suggestions
Before talking about the synonyms of "greedy", you need to know its meaning. And so it turns out that we put the cart in front of the horse. The Explanatory Dictionary states the following:
- Striving for profit, mean.
- Persistent in the desire to satisfy his desire, expressing this desire; too avid for something.
- Filled with the desire to understand, to know (figurative).
Since the values are quite complex and unusual, let's pair them with the appropriate sentences:
- Be careful with him and bargain to the last. He is prone to overpricing: very greedy, mean.
- Listen, you are so greedy for food, it would be better if you were so greedy for work.
- The story was so fascinating that the listeners turned into one continuous greedy curiosity.
There is one subtlety that must be mentioned. The second sentence may be slightly tautological, but this redundancy is important. When a person is "greedy for food" - the phrase has a direct meaning, and when - "before work" - figurative. And this is interesting, because, apparently, in principle the adjective has a negative content, but when a good word "settles" next to it, it transforms the object of study and saturates it with a figurative positive meaning. And next in line are synonyms for the word "greedy."
Replacements
Sometimes the adjective in question cannot be used in context; analogues are needed. Let's see how rich the dictionary of synonyms is:
- hungry;
- predatory;
- greedy;
- insatiable;
- avid;
- hunter
- calculating;
- voracious.
And this dictionary supports colleagues, giving mostly negative substitutions to the object of study. But the reader must remember that when a person is greedy, for example, to culture, then this is not so bad.