単語データベース検索

単語 / 【 ID 】 意味 / 例文 /同義語/上位語/下位語/派生語

covetous SimpleWikiWiktionaryGoogle検索CollinsCambridgeLongmanLongman英和Learners 【 84354 】 【意味】 "[形容詞] immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth [例] they are avaricious and will do anything for money [例] casting covetous eyes on his neighbor's fields [例] a grasping old miser [例] grasping commercialism [例] greedy for money and power [例] grew richer and greedier [例] prehensile employers stingy with raises for their employees [例] He is covetous of his neighbor's car. [例] The covetous man wanted to take everything for himself. [例] He was a covetous man who wanted to own everything. [意味] 強欲な, 貪欲な, 欲深い, 貪欲の, 欲張りの, 欲ばりの, 物欲しい, 食欲旺盛な ; [同義語] greedy, avaricious, grasping, grabby, prehensile ; [類似語] acquisitive ; [派生] grasping, greed, cupidity, avarice, seizing, taking hold, greediness, avariciousness ; [同義語群] 00029933-a [形容詞] showing extreme cupidity; painfully desirous of another's advantages [例] he was never covetous before he met her [例] jealous of his success and covetous of his possessions [例] envious of their art collection [例] The covetous man wanted to steal the necklace from the pretty girl. [例] She was a covetous person who wanted everything that she saw. [意味] 貪欲な, 強欲な, 妬ましい, 異なるい, うらやましい, 羨ましい, 嫉ましい, ねたましい ; [同義語] envious, jealous ; [類似語] wishful, desirous ; [派生] cupidity, avarice, envy, avariciousness, covetousness, invidia, enviousness ; [同義語群] 00888765-a"