avarice 音标拼音: ['ævɚəs]
n . 贪财,贪婪
贪财,贪婪
avarice n 1 :
reprehensible acquisitiveness ;
insatiable desire for wealth (
personified as one of the deadly sins ) [
synonym : {
avarice },
{
greed }, {
covetousness }, {
rapacity }, {
avaritia }]
2 :
extreme greed for material wealth [
synonym : {
avarice },
{
avariciousness }, {
covetousness }, {
cupidity }]
Avarice \
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a *
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a ^]
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r [
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s ),
n . [
F .
avaritia ,
fr .
avarus avaricious ,
prob .
fr .
av [=
e ]
re to covet ,
fr .
a root av to satiate one '
s self :
cf .
Gr . '
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menai , '
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sai ,
to satiate ,
Skr .
av to satiate one '
s self ,
rejoice ,
protect .]
1 .
An excessive or inordinate desire of gain ;
greediness for wealth ;
covetousness ;
cupidity .
[
1913 Webster ]
To desire money for its own sake ,
and in order to hoard it up ,
is avarice . --
Beattie .
[
1913 Webster ]
2 .
An inordinate desire for some supposed good .
[
1913 Webster ]
All are taught an avarice of praise . --
Goldsmith .
[
1913 Webster ]
68 Moby Thesaurus words for "
avarice ":
acedia ,
acquisitiveness ,
anger ,
avariciousness ,
avaritia ,
avidity ,
avidness ,
cheapness ,
closefistedness ,
closeness ,
covetousness ,
craving ,
cupidity ,
deadly sin ,
desire ,
envy ,
frenzy of desire ,
frugality ,
fury of desire ,
gluttony ,
grasping ,
graspingness ,
greed ,
greediness ,
gula ,
hardfistedness ,
hoarding ,
hoggishness ,
illiberality ,
incontinence ,
inordinate desire ,
insatiability ,
insatiable desire ,
intemperateness ,
invidia ,
ira ,
itching palm ,
lust ,
luxuria ,
meanness ,
miserliness ,
nearness ,
niggardliness ,
overgreediness ,
parsimoniousness ,
parsimony ,
penny -
pinching ,
penuriousness ,
piggishness ,
pride ,
rapaciousness ,
rapacity ,
ravenousness ,
selfishness ,
sloth ,
sordidness ,
stinginess ,
superbia ,
swinishness ,
thrift ,
tight purse strings ,
tightfistedness ,
tightness ,
ungenerosity ,
voraciousness ,
voracity ,
wolfishness ,
wrath
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