greedy

modif.

1. Avaricious

   avid, grasping, rapacious, selfish, miserly, parsimonious, close, close-fisted, tight, tight-fisted, niggardly, exploitative, grudging, sordid, mercenary, illiberal, stingy, covetous, penurious, acquisitive, pennypinching*.

   Antonyms generous*, munificent*, bountiful. *

2. Gluttonous

   rapacious, swinish, voracious, devouring, hoggish, ravening, ravenous, omnivorous, carnivorous, insatiate, gorging, belly-worshiping, surfeiting, crapulous, intemperate, gormandizing, guzzling, gobbling, gulping, selfish, indulging one's appetites.

   Antonyms ascetic*, fasting, abstemious.

greedy implies an insatiable desire to possess or acquire something to an amount inordinately beyond what one needs or deserves and is the broadest of the terms compared here; avaricious stresses greed for money or riches and often connotes miserliness; grasping suggests an unscrupulous eagerness for gain that manifests itself in a seizing upon every opportunity to get what one desires; acquisitive stresses the exertion of effort in acquiring or accumulating wealth or material possessions to an excessive amount; covetous implies greed for something that another person rightfully possesses