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100 Best Synonyms for “Greedy”

September 30, 2026

100 Best Synonyms for

No. Item Definition
1. acquisitive eager to acquire things
2. advantage-hungry greedy for advantage
3. approval-hungry greedy for approval
4. asset-hungry greedy for assets
5. attention-hungry greedy for attention
6. avaricious excessively eager for wealth
7. bloodsucking greedily exploiting others
8. calculating selfishly scheming for gain
9. cash-grabbing greedy for cash
10. cash-hungry eager for cash
11. cheeseparing meanly economical
12. closefisted unwilling to spend money
13. control-hungry greedy for control
14. cormorant voracious or greedy
15. covetous wanting others’ possessions
16. credit-hungry greedy for credit
17. cutthroat ruthlessly greedy or competitive
18. designing scheming for personal gain
19. devouring consuming greedily
20. dominance-hungry greedy for dominance
21. edacious very greedy for food
22. esurient hungry or greedy
23. exploitative using others for gain
24. extortionate greedily excessive in price
25. fame-hungry greedy for fame
26. gain-hungry greedy for gain
27. glory-hungry greedy for glory
28. gluttonous greedy for food
29. gobbling eating quickly and greedily
30. gold-digging seeking wealth through others
31. gouging charging greedily excessive prices
32. grabbing seizing more than is fair
33. grabby eager to take things
34. grasping greedily seeking gain
35. hoggish selfishly greedy
36. honor-hungry greedy for honor
37. hungry strongly desirous
38. illiberal ungenerous with money or help
39. insatiable impossible to satisfy
40. insatiate never satisfied
41. land-grabbing greedy for land
42. land-grubbing greedy for land
43. land-hungry greedy for land
44. limelight-hungry greedy for public attention
45. loot-hungry greedy for loot
46. looting stealing greedily during disorder
47. lustful filled with strong desire
48. Mammonish greedy for wealth
49. Mammonistic devoted to money gain
50. materialistic overly concerned with possessions
51. mean stingy and ungenerous
52. mercenary motivated mainly by money
53. miserly greedy about keeping money
54. money-grabbing greedy for money
55. money-grubbing greedy for money
56. money-hungry greedy for money
57. near stingy or parsimonious
58. niggardly stingy or ungenerous
59. opportunistic selfishly seeking advantage
60. overreaching grasping beyond proper limits
61. parsimonious excessively unwilling to spend
62. penny-pinching stingy about small amounts
63. piggish greedy and unpleasant
64. piggy greedy, especially with food
65. possessions-hungry greedy for possessions
66. possessive wanting to keep for oneself
67. power-hungry greedy for power
68. predatory exploiting others for gain
69. prize-hungry greedy for prizes
70. profit-hungry greedy for profit
71. rapacious aggressively greedy or grasping
72. ravenous extremely hungry or eager
73. recognition-hungry greedy for recognition
74. resource-grabbing greedy for resources
75. reward-hungry greedy for rewards
76. self-seeking pursuing personal advantage
77. self-serving serving one’s own interests
78. selfish caring chiefly about oneself
79. sharklike ruthlessly greedy
80. skinflint stingy and money-grasping
81. spoils-hungry greedy for spoils
82. status-hungry greedy for status
83. stingy meanly unwilling to share
84. success-hungry greedy for success
85. swinish grossly greedy or piglike
86. thirsty strongly craving something
87. tight stingy with money
88. tightfisted stingy with money
89. unappeasable unable to be satisfied
90. ungenerous not willing to give
91. unquenchable impossible to satisfy
92. unscrupulous unethical in pursuing gain
93. usurious greedy in lending money
94. validation-hungry greedy for validation
95. voracious having a huge appetite
96. vulture-like greedily exploiting the vulnerable
97. vulturine greedily preying on weakness
98. wealth-obsessed obsessed with wealth
99. wolf-like ravenous or predatory
100. wolfish fiercely hungry or greedy

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