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av·a·ri·cious
 avaricious
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- pronunciation:
- ae
v
rI
shihs
- features:
- Word Combinations (adjective), Word Parts
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adjective |
| definition: |
marked by avarice; greedy, esp. for wealth; grasping.
The avaricious relatives fawned over their aging aunt in the hope of inheriting some of her wealth.- similar words:
- covetous, grasping, greedy, sordid
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| related words: |
acquisitive, hack, mercenary, miserly, selfish, voracious |
adverb + (adj.)avaricious
somewhat
(adj.)avaricious
+ noun
behavior, blood, capitalism, duty, entrepreneur, establishment, kid, nature, opportunist
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| derivations: |
avariciously (adv.), avariciousness (n.) |
The word avaricious
contains the following part:
-ous, -ious
Latin
adjective-forming suffix
that means full of, characterized by
  More about this word part:
The suffix "-ous
, -ious
" attaches to Latin, Greek, and native English roots
Example words:
adventurous, ambiguous, amorous, amorphous, anadromous, androgynous, anomalous, apetalous, apocarpous, apterous, aqueous, atrocious, auspicious, avaricious, azygous, captious, carnivorous, chromous, coterminous, covetous, curious, delicious, diadromous, diaphanous, dicephalous, dioecious, disingenuous, egregious, endogenous, enormous, epigynous, euphonious, extemporaneous, ferocious, fortuitous, generous, glorious, gracious, gregarious, heterogamous, heterogeneous, homogeneous, homogenous, homologous, homopterous, hydrous, hypogynous, illustrious, impecunious, impervious, incommodious, incongruous, inconspicuous, indecorous, infamous, infelicitous, innocuous, intravenous, isogenous, isomerous, joyous, judicious, laborious, ludicrous, lustrous, magnanimous, malicious, malodorous, monoclinous, monoecious, multiparous, nauseous, perigynous, poisonous, porous, precious, quadrumanous, ramous, rebellious, spacious, subaqueous, synchronous, tubuliflorous, unanimous, valorous, vicious, wondrous, xerophilous
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