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• (avid)- keenly desirous; eager; greedy, ( , , ); His mother
had been an avid gardener and passed her love of green and blooming things
along to him. — Encounter At Farpoint;
• (greedy)- excessively desirous of acquiring or possessing; Her overweening
ambition made her greedy, and Yoshida had learned how to live off that
greed without the Reverend Mother ever knowing it. — Black Blade;
• (devouring)- to swallow or eat up hungrily, voraciously, or
ravenously,( , ); When a soul with childlike
trust casts her faults into Love's all-devouring furnace, how shall they escape
being utterly consumed? — The Story of a Soul;
• (covetous)- inordinately or wrongly desirous of wealth or possessions;
greedy, ( ); Charity is the very opposite of the selfish, covetous,
ambitious, proud, grudging spirit of this world. — Sermons for the Times;
• (cupidity)- eager or excessive desire, esp. to possess something; greed;
avarice, ( - ); Ali's schemes had succeeded, but both his
ambition and his cupidity were frustrated. — Celebrated Crimes (Complete);
• (rapacity)- inordinately greedy; predatory; extortionate; He left behind
him a character of reckless rapacity, and of a determined will,
notwithstanding some generous and humane actions. — Memoirs of the
Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II;
economize = husband > husbandry
• (economize)- to practice economy, as by avoiding waste or reducing
expenditures; The prices are so low that we have difficulty in meeting the
interest on our mortgages and paying our taxes, no matter how seriously
we economize. — My Memories of Eighty Years;
• (husband)- to manage, esp. with prudent economy, (
); Marathan runners must husband their energy so that they can keep
going for the entire distance;
• (husbandry)- careful or thrifty management; frugality, thrift, or
conservation; He accumulated his small fortune by diligence and husbandry;
thrifty = frugal = economical = sparing = stinting
• (thrifty)- practicing thrift or economical management; frugal, ( );
Her husband had always been industrious and thrifty, and his death left her
enough to support her and her Sally in the way they wished. — Jane Talbot;
• thriving, prosperous, or successful, ( , );
• (frugal)- economical in use or expenditure; prudently saving or sparing; not
wasteful, (( , ) , , , );
He frequented the voluptuous and the frugal, the idle and the busy, the