avaricious

• avaritious (obsolete)
• avaricius (obsolete)

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

• IPA^(key): /ˌævəˈɹɪʃəs/

avaricious (comparative more avaricious, superlative most avaricious)

1. Actuated by avarice; extremely greedy for wealth or material gain; immoderately desirous of accumulating property.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Robert Montgomery Bird

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

• See Thesaurus:greedy

• avariciously
• avariciousness

• avarice

• “avaricious” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2019.