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Definition: Greedily |
GreedilyAdverb1. In a greedy manner. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "greedily" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Synonyms: GreedilySynonyms: avariciously (adv), covetously (adv). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Greedily |
| English words defined with "greedily": Avidiously ♦ devour ♦ gorger, gulp, gulper, guttle, guzzle, guzzler ♦ hog ♦ Ingurgitation ♦ pig ♦ quaff ♦ raven ♦ scoffer, swig. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "greedily": Malhotra-Kumar-Maheshwari blocking flow, Milesian Fables ♦ Rayado ♦ TO SWILL, TO WHIP OFF. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "greedily": Phytivorous. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | The dwarves delved too greedily and too deep (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring; writing credit: Frances Walsh) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Author | Quotation |
Denis Diderot | We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter. |
Lao-Tzu | Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The man fell to, eating greedily. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The children crawled near on their hands and knees, staring greedily. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | I think I shall not buy greedily, but go round and round it as long as I live, and be buried in it first, that it may please me the more at last |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Greedily" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Greedily" is used about 107 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 107 | 31,463 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "greedily": eat greedily ♦ fall greedily ♦ fall greedily upon. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "greedily"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | me lakmi (covetously), me babëzi. (various references) | |
Arabic | بطمع, بجشع, بشراهة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | ненаситно, лакомо (devouringly, openmouthed). (various references) | |
Czech | hltavì (hungrily), chamtivì. (various references) | |
French | gloutonnement, d'un air vorace, cupidement, cupide (grasping, greedy), avidement. (various references) | |
German | gierig (avaricious, avariciously, avid, avidly, grabby, greedy, hoggish, lustful, piggishly, voracious), habgierig (acquisitive, avaricious, eager, grasping, graspingly, greedy, possessive, rapacious). (various references) | |
Greek | άπληστα. (various references) | |
Hebrew | ללעוט (devour, eat greedily, gobble down, swallow). (various references) | |
Hungarian | mohón (anxiously, avidly, covetously, eagerly, voraciously). (various references) | |
Italian | cupidamente, avidamente (keenly). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | がっちり屋 (burning with desire for something, firmly, gulping down, guzzling, latched onto, locked onto, tightwad). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | がつがつ (burning with desire for something). (various references) | |
Manx | dy jollyssagh, dy jioogh. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eedilygray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | gananciosamente, vorazmente (devouringly), avidamente (acquisitively, eagerly, hungrily). (various references) | |
Romanian | hulpav (greedy, ravenously), cu lãcomie (hungrily), avid (avid, eager, greedy, insatiable, rapacious). (various references) | |
Russian | жадно (acquisitively, avidly, devouringly, thirstily, wolfishly). (various references) | |
Scottish | gloc (as of a hen, clucking, swallow greedily, the clucking of a hen), sglamhadh (a seizing greedily upon anything). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | pohlepno. (various references) | |
Spanish | golosamente, vorazmente, codiciosamente (acquisitively), ávidamente (eagerly, hungrily). (various references) | |
Swedish | girigt. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | ревно (ding-dong), жадібно (acquisitively, avidly, hungrily). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 21, Verse 26 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | AsebhV epiqumei olhn thn hmeran epiqumiaV kakaV o de dikaioV elea kai oiktirei afeidwV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Tota die concupiscit et desiderat qui autem iustus est tribuet et non cessabit |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Al dai he coueitith and desireth; who forsothe is riytwis, shal yelde, and not cese. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | He coveteth greedily all the day long: but the righteous giveth and spareth not. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | He coveteth greedily all the day long: but the righteous giveth and spareth not. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | All the day the sinner goes after his desire: but the upright man gives freely, keeping nothing back. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Proverbs Chapter 21, Verse 26 |
| Cebuano | Adunay maibug sa pagkahakog gayud sa tibook adlaw; Apan ang matarung nagahatag ug wala magatungina. |
| Croatian | Opak po cio dan živo želi, a pravednik daje i ne škrtari. |
| Danish | Ugerningsmand er stadig i Trang, den retfærdige giver uden at spare. |
| Dutch | Den gansen dag begeert hij begeerlijke dingen; maar de rechtvaardige zal geven, en niet inhouden. |
| Finnish | Aina on hartaasti haluavia, mutta vanhurskas antaa säästelemättä. |
| French | Tout le jour il éprouve des désirs; Mais le juste donne sans parcimonie. |
| German | Er wünscht den ganzen Tag; aber der Gerechte gibt, und versagt nicht. |
| Haitian Creole | Tout lajounen l'ap kalkile sou sa l' ta renmen genyen. Men, moun ki mache dwat yo gen pou bay, y'ap bay san gad dèyè. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Sepanjang hari ia hanya memikirkan tentang apa yang ia inginkan. Sebaliknya, orang yang lurus hidupnya dapat memberi dengan berlimpah-limpah. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Orang gelojoh itu ingin pada sepanjang hari, tetapi orang yang benar itu suka memberi dan tiada disayangkannya hartanya. |
| Italian | Tutta la vita l'empio indulge alla cupidigia, mentre il giusto dona senza risparmiare. |
| Maori | Tera te hanga he kaiapo tonu a pau noa te ra: ko ta te tangata tika ia he homai, kahore hoki ana kaiponu. |
| Norwegian | Hele dagen attrår og attrår han, men den rettferdige gir og sparer ikke. |
| Portuguese | Todo o dia o ímpio cobiça; mas o justo dá, e não retém. |
| Rumanian | Toatq ziua o duce numai kn pofte: dar cel neprihqnit dq fqrq zgkrcenie. - |
| Russian | ЧУСЛЙК "ЕОШ ПО УЙМШОП БМЮЕФ, Б ТБЧЕ"ОЙЛ "БЕФ Й ОЕ ЦБМЕЕФ. |
| Spanish | Hay quien todo el día codicia y codicia, pero el justo da y no escatima. |
| Swedish | Den snikne är alltid full av snikenhet; men den rättfärdige giver och spar icke. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Misspellings | |
"Greedily" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: greadilly, greadily, greedilly, greedly, Grevilia. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "greedily" (pronounced grē"dulē) |
| 5 | -ē" d u l ē | speedily. |
| 4 | -d u l ē | bodily, handily, readily, steadily. |
| 3 | -u l ē | abysmally, accidentally, abnormally, actually, additionally, agriculturally, anecdotally, anencephaly, angrily, annually, anomaly, arbitrarily, architecturally, artfully, artificially, beneficially, bilaterally, blissfully, botanically, broccoli, brutally, busily, carefully, casually, centrally, cerebrally, cheerfully, chronically, Cicely, circumstantially, civilly, clinically, clumsily, coincidentally, comically, commercially, conceptually, conditionally, confidentially, congressionally, conspiratorially, constitutionally, continentally, continually, contractually, contradictorily, conventionally, cordially, crazily, criminally, critically, culturally, customarily, cynically, delightfully, developmentally, diagonally, diametrically, digitally, dismally, jauntily, journalistically, joyfully, judicially, lawfully, lazily, diurnally, dorsally, dreadfully, dutifully, easily, editorially, educationally, eerily, electrically, electronically, emotionally, empirically, environmentally, equally, essentially, eternally, ethically, eventually, exceptionally, experimentally, exponentially, externally, extraordinarily, facsimile, factually, faithfully, family, fanatically, fatally, federally, finally, financially, fiscally, fitfully, florally, forcefully, formally, fractionally, frantically, frightfully, frugally, functionally, fundamentally, gainfully, generally, generationally, geographically, giggly, gleefully, globally, gloomily, governmentally, gracefully, gradually, gratefully, gravelly, gravitationally, habitually, happily, hastily, haughtily, heartily, heavily, helpfully, hermetically, historically, homily, hopefully, horizontally, hungrily, icily, illegally, impartially, incidentally, incrementally, individually, industrially, informally, initially, institutionally, intellectually, intentionally, internally, internationally, intrinsically, involuntarily, irrationally, legally, liberally, literally, locally, loyally, luckily, magically, magnetically, majestically, manfully, manually, marginally, masterfully, materially, mathematically, meaningfully, medicinally, mentally, mercifully, merrily, methodically, metrically, mightily, militarily, mineralogically, minimally, momentarily, monetarily, monopoly, monumentally, morally, mortally, multifamily, multilaterally, municipally, mutually, nasally, nationally, nattily, naturally, necessarily, noisily, nominally, normally, novelly, nutritionally, occasionally, officially, oligopoly, operationally, optimistically, orally, orchestrally, ordinarily, originally, painfully, parenthetically, partially, pathetically, peacefully, perennially, periodically, peripherally, perpetually, personally, phenomenally, philosophically, physically, pitifully, playfully, politically, potentially, pragmatically, preferentially, preliminarily, presidentially, primarily, procedurally, professionally, proportionally, provincially, provisionally, purposefully, quintessentially, racially, radially, rationally, regally, regionally, regretfully, respectfully, rightfully, ritualistically, romantically, royally, ruefully, sardonically, satisfactorily, scantily, scientifically, seasonally, secondarily, semiannually, sequentially, serenely, severally, sexually, skeptically, skillfully, sleepily, sloppily, socially, specially, spiritually, statistically, statutorily, steamily, structurally, subfamily, subliminally, substantially, subtly, successfully, summarily, supremely, surgically, symbolically, sympathetically, tactfully, tactically, tangentially, tastefully, tearfully, technically, technologically, temperamentally, temporally, temporarily, terminally, territorially, testily, thankfully, theatrically, theoretically, therapeutically, thoughtfully, totally, traditionally, Tripoli, truthfully, uncannily, unconditionally, unconstitutionally, uncritically, uneasily, unequivocally, unhappily, unilaterally, unintentionally, universally, unlawfully, unnaturally, unnecessarily, unofficially, unsuccessfully, unusually, usefully, usually, virtually, viscerally, visually, vitally, vocally, voluntarily, warily, wearily, wiggly, wilfully, willfully, wishfully, wistfully, wittily, wobbly, woefully, wonderfully, wrongfully. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-g-i-l-r-y" | |
-1 letter: ledgier, reedily, yielder. | |
-2 letters: direly, edgier, edgily, eerily, eyelid, gelder, gilder, girdle, gleyed, glider, greedy, greyed, ledger, lieder, redleg, regild, relied, ridgel, ridley. | |
-3 letters: dirge, drily, edger, edile, eider, elder, elegy, elide, eyrie, gelid, girly, glede, gleed, glide, greed, gride, gyred, idler, ledge, ledgy, leery, leger, liege, liger, redly, redye, reedy, ridge, ridgy. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-g-i-l-r-y" | |
+1 letter: glyceride. | |
+2 letters: glycerides, resignedly. | |
+3 letters: aggrievedly, diglyceride, dingleberry, divergently, endearingly, legendarily, redeploying. | |
+4 letters: bigheartedly, decreasingly, degressively, depressingly, derogatively, diglycerides, digressively, disagreeably, glycerinated, triglyceride. | |
+5 letters: bewilderingly, deprecatingly, domineeringly, foresightedly, monoglyceride, nearsightedly, semilegendary, triglycerides. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Quotations: Familiar 6. Quotations: Fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Bible Trace 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Bibliography |
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