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Greedy

Definition: Greedy

Greedy

Adjective

1. Immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth; "they are avaricious and will do anything for money"; "casting covetous eyes on his neighbor's fields"; "a grasping old miser"; "grasping commercialism"; "greedy for money and power"; "grew richer and greedier"; "prehensile employers stingy with raises for their employees".

2. (often followed by `for') ardently or excessively desirous; "avid for adventure"; "an avid ambition to succeed"; "fierce devouring affection"; "the esurient eyes of an avid curiosity"; "greedy for fame".

3. Wanting to eat or drink more than one can reasonably consume; "don't be greedy with the cookies".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "greedy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Greedy

DomainDefinition

Literature

Greedy (Justice). In A New Way to Pay Old Debts, by Massinger. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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Specialty Definition: Greed

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Greed is a desire to obtain more money or material possessions than one is considered to need. A more religious term for greed is avarice, which is listed as one of the Seven Deadly Sins.

Greedy individuals are often believed to be harmful to society as their motives often appear to disregard the welfare of others: if one person is to increase in wealth, somebody else must be decreasing in wealth. However, greed has become more acceptable (and the word less frequent) in Western culture, where the desire to acquire wealth is an important part of capitalism.

Gluttony is a form of greed relating specifically to food and drink. Although eating disorders are widespread, the term "gluttony" is seldom used outside religious discussion.

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Synonyms: Greedy

Synonyms: avaricious (adj), avid (adj), covetous (adj), devouring(a) (adj), esurient (adj), grabby (adj), grasping (adj), prehensile (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Greedy

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Desire

Greedy; a.

Gluttony

Adjective: gluttonous, greedy; gormandizing;Verb: edacious, omnivorous, crapulent, swinish.

Greed

Greedy as a hog; overeager; voracious; ravenous, ravenous as a wolf; openmouthed, extortionate, exacting, sordid, alieni appetens; insatiable, insatiate; unquenchable, quenchless; omnivorous.

Adjective: greedy, avaricious, covetous, acquisitive, grasping; rapacious; lickerish.

Parsimony

Adjective: parsimonious, penurious, stingy, miserly, mean, shabby, peddling, scrubby, penny wise, near, close; fast handed, close handed, strait handed; close fisted, hard fisted, tight fisted; tight, sparing; chary; grudging, griping; Verb: illiberal, ungenerous, churlish, hidebound, sordid, mercenary, venal, covetous, usurious, avaricious, greedy, extortionate, rapacious.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Greedy

English words defined with "greedy": avariciouslycovetouslyGluttonish, Gormand, Gormandizer, greedily, Gripple, Guttlerhog, hoggishLickerishMidasOn the make, Open-mouthedpig, piggish, piggy, porcinerapacious, raveningshark, swinishunselfishvoracious. (references)
Specialty definitions using "greedy": Covetous ManENCOREfractional knapsack problemgreedy algorithm, GREEDY GUTS, GUZZLE GUTSPigShotten Herring. (references)

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Modern Usage: Greedy

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Right, let's sort the buyers from the spyers; the needy from the greedy; and those who trust me from the ones who don't (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels; writing credit: Guy Ritchie)

You all look the same, you're all greedy, full of yourselves, and I wonder if there's a big dome someplace where they grow you. (Vengeance Unlimited; writing credit: Andrew Davies; William Makepeace Thackeray)

All those that are greedy fall into the pit. (Digimon: Digital Monsters; writing credit: Dayna Barron)

I think you are despicable, greedy, grasping, and wholly without principle or pity (Herbie Rides Again; writing credit: Gordon Buford; Bill Walsh)

I'm with the greedy bloodsuckers (Zorro, the Gay Blade; writing credit: Greg Alt; Hal Dresner)

Lyrics

Greedy, greedy, greedy (Son Of A Gun (I Betcha Think This Song Is About You); performing artist: Janet Jackson)

Too hot, too greedy. (Wuthering heights; performing artist: Kate Bush)

Movie/TV Titles

Greedy for Tweety (1957)

The Greedy Neighbor (1914)

Greedy Mouth (1981)

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Commercial Usage: Greedy

DomainTitle

Books

  • The Greedy Gremlin (Pixie Tricks, 2) (reference)

  • The Greedy Hand : How Taxes Drive Americans Crazy and What to Do About It -- With a New Introduction by the Author (reference)

  • The Greedy Python (reference)

  • Trillionaire Next Door: The Greedy Investor's Guide to Day Trading (reference)

  • Casey the Greedy Young Cowboy: A Book About Being Thankful (Waite, Michael P., Building Christian Character.) (reference)

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Theater & Movies

  • Greedy (reference)

  • Wild Arms - The Good, The Bad and The Greedy (Vol. 1 - With Series Box) (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

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Image Slideshow: Greedy

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Photo Album: Greedy

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You must give me the largest half of the apple, Ruth, because Mama says we mustn't be greedy. Credit: Library of Congress.

Old Bachelor: How glad I am that I don't have to cart round endless bundles for greedy brats during the holidays. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Familiar Quotations: Greedy

AuthorQuotation

Attorney General Thomas C. Clark

We find greedy men, blind with the lust for money, trafficking in human misery.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.

Seneca

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

W. S. Gilbert

Down went the owners -- greedy men whom hope of gain allured: oh, dry the starting tear, for they were heavily insured.

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Use in Literature: Greedy

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Thenardier was sly, greedy, lounging, and clever

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

Yet not a few are greedy after this gossip

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Speeches: Greedy

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Ronald Reagan

1981-1989The truly needy suffer as funds intended for them are taken not by the needy, but by the greedy.

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Usage Frequency: Greedy

"Greedy" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 97.77% of the time. "Greedy" is used about 493 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)97.77%48212,355
Noun (proper)2.23%11106,044
                    Total100.00%493N/A

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Expressions: Greedy

Expressions using "greedy": be greedy become greedy greedy about greedy for greedy for power greedy guts greedy of greedy of pain greedy person greedy pig. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "greedy": Greedy-gut.

Ending with "greedy": goal-greedy, man-greedy, non-greedy, too-greedy.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Greedy

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Modern Translation: Greedy

Language Translations for "greedy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

gretig (acquisitive, avid, eager, eager for), belus (acquisitive, eager), begerig (acquisitive, eager). (various references)

   

Albanian

  

grykës (gluttonous, guttural, voracious), nepsqar (leer, prurient, voracious), makut (Edacious, esurient, gluttonous, grasping, mingy, miser, open mouthed, pecker, piggish, rapacious, voracious), llupës (glutton, gluttonous, gourmand, guttler, guzzler, voracious), lakmitar (covetous, hoggish, lickerish, predatory), i babëzitur. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏متكالب (avid), ‏طماع (avid, grasping, kidnapper, predatory, pushing, rapacious, ravening), ‏طامع (avid, covetous, ravening), ‏جشع (an itching palm, avarice, avaricious, avidity, cupidity, grasping, greed, mercenary, predatory, rapacious, rapacity, ravening), ‏أناني (asocial, egocentric, egoist, egoistic, hoggish, self centered, self centred, selfish), ‏شره (avid, avidity, cormorant, gluttonous, gourmand, greed, gross, hoggish, lickerish, pig, piggish, predatory, solicitous, voracious, voracity), ‏شديد التوق إلي. (various references)

   

Basque

  

gozozale. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

ненаситен (avid, covetous, craving, grasping, insatiable, insatiate, ravenous, sateless, slakeless, voracious), лаком (avid, esurient, gourmand, grasping, gutsy, hoggish, lickerish, openmouthed, piggish, ravenous, voracious). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

貪心 , , (food, gluttonous, to cook), 贪婪 (Acquisitive, Acquisitiveness, Avarice, Covetous, grabby, greed, rapacious), (fast, run rapidly), (covetous). (various references)

   

Czech

  

rozežraný, nenasytný (gluttonous, insatiable, insatiate, sateless, voracious), laèný penìz, laèný (greedy for, greedy of, hungry, possessive), hrabivý (avaricious, grasping, mercenary, rapacious), hltavý (gluttonous, omnivorous, ravenous, voracious, wolfish), hamižný, chtivý (avid, eager, hungry), chamtivý (avaricious, covetous, grasping, rapacious). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

happig (acquisitive, avid, eager), gretig (acquisitive, avid, eager), belust (acquisitive, avid, eager), begerig (acquisitive, avid, eager). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

avida (avid, eager for). (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

grammur (acquisitive, eager). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

پرخور (Gobbler, Voracious), حریص (Avaricious, Avid, Fierce, Hungry, Perfervid, Voracious, Vulture), طماع (Avaricious), ازمند (Avaricious, Avid, Cormorant, Covetous), دندان گرد. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

ahne (acquisitive, eager). (various references)

   

French

  

avide (grasping), glouton, cupide (grasping, greedily). (various references)

   

German

  

habgierig (acquisitive, avaricious, eager, grasping, graspingly, greedily, possessive, rapacious), gierig (avaricious, avariciously, avid, avidly, grabby, greedily, hoggish, lustful, piggishly, voracious), begierig (acquisitive, avid, avidly, aware, desirous, desirously, eager, hungry, keen, thirstily, thirsty, wishful). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

πλεονέκτησ (grasping), άπληστοσ (acquisitive, avid, cormorant, covetous, insatiable, rapacious, voracious), άπληστος (acquisitive, rapacious, voracious), λιχούδησ (lickerish), λαίμαργοσ (glutton, gluttonous, lickerish, ravenous), λαίμαργος (gluttonous), αχόρταγοσ (insatiable, voracious). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

תאותן (lustful), תאב (avid, craving, desirous, eager, longing, thirsty), חמ"ן (lustful), חמ" י (lustful), או"ב כסף (grasping, mercenary), כילי (avaricious, mean, miserly), רו"ף בצע (grasping, mercenary), רעבת י (avid, gluttonous, hungry, ravenous, voracious), רעב (famine, famished, gluttonous, hunger, hungry, ravenous, scarcity, starvation, yearning). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kapzsi (acquisitive, avaricious, avariciously, avid, covetous, eager for gain, extortionate, grasping, have an itching palm, rapacious). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

gelojoh (gluttomous), tamak (acquisitive, avarice, grasping, rapacious), rakus (edacious), loba (avaricious), kemaruk (covetous, ravenous), angkara (egotistical, insolent, self centered). (various references)

   

Italian

  

avido (acquisitive, athirst, avid, covetous, eager, grasping, hungry, thirsty, voracious), vorace (gutsy, ravenous, voracious), bramoso (acquisitive, avid, covetous, eager, hungry, longing, lustful, wishful, yearning). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

卑しい (base, humble, mean, shabby, vile, vulgar). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

いやしい (base, humble, mean, shabby, vile, vulgar), いじきたない (gluttonous), ものほし', よくふかい. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

욕심 많은. (various references)

   

Manx

  

sondagh (avaricious, close-fisted, covetous, miser, selfish, sordid), jollyssagh (avid, immoderate, insatiable, rapacious, voracious), jioogh (avid, gluttonous, insatiable, voracious). (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

grådig (gluttonous). (various references)

   

Occitan

  

golard. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eedygray.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

guloso (gluttonous, gourmand, lickerish, sweet tooth), ganancioso (acquisitive, grasping, rapacious), voraz (cormorant, edacious, gluttonous, gourmand, lickerish, rapacious, ravenous), sequioso (acquisitive, eager, thirsty), sedento (acquisitive, athirst, eager, thirsty), insacivel, comilo (gourmand, guzzler), cobiçoso (acquisitive, covetous, eager), vido (grasping, hard set, hungry), ambicioso (ambitious, aspiring, covetous, pushful), ávido (acquisitive, appropriative, athirst, avid, eager, edacious, jejune, lickerish, rapacious, ravenous, wishful, wistful). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

gurmand (food-minded, glutton, gourmand, gourmandizer, gourmet, hog, pecker), gãman (glutton, gluttonous), nerãbdãtor (agog, anxious, eager, impatient, impatiently, petulant, solicitous), mercenar (free lance, hireling, mercenary), lacom (avid, covetous, craving, devouringly, edacious, esurient, glutton, gluttonous, hoggish, hungry, insatiable, lickerish, open mouthed, piggish, rapacious, ravenous, voracious, wishful, wolfish), hulpav (greedily, ravenously), hapsân (cruel, fierce, grabbing, wicked), pofticios (longing, wanton, wishful, wistful), nesãţios (insatiable, ravenous), acaparat (absorbing, grasping), dornic (agog, anxious, desirous, eager, wishful), calic (beggar, cadger, cripple, glutton, pauper, ragamuffin, ragged, skinflint, tatterdemalion), avid (avid, eager, greedily, insatiable, rapacious), apucãtor (grasping), acaparator (absorbing, accumulator, acquisitive, buyer-up, covetous, engrossing, food hoarder, forestalling, grabber, grasping, money making, money-grabbing, monopolizer, predatory), hãmesit (famished, hungered, ravenous). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

жадный (avaricious, avid, covetous, edacious, esurient, glutton, grasping, hoggish, insatiable, large-handed, locust, mingy, open mouthed, piggish, rapacious, ravenous, sharp-set, voracious), алчный (acquisitive, avaricious, avid, covetous, eager). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

sanntach (desirous). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

gladan (hungry, lean, peckish, starveling, starving), pohlepan (avaricious, lickerish, rapacious, sharp-set), požudan (lustful), koristoljubiv (self-interested, self-seeking, worldly-minded). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

codicioso (acquisitive, avaricious, covetous, eager, mammonish), ávido (acquisitive, appetent, athirst, avid, covetous, eager, lickerish, rapacious), goloso (gourmand, sweet tooth). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

sniken (acquisitive, avaricious, covetous, eager), snål (acquisitive, chary, close, close-fisted, eager, illiberal, mean, mingy, skimpy, stingly, stingy, tight-fisted, ungenerous), vinningslysten (covetous, mercenary), girig (avaricious, avid, covetous, grabby, grasping, miserly, moneygrubbing, sordid, stingy). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

gözü aç (grasping, insatiable, ravenous), tamahkâr (avaricious, miserly), pisboğaz (gluttonous, gourmand, piggish, piglike, ravenous), obur (cormorant, edacious, esurient, glutton, gluttonous, gormandizer, gourmand, guzzler, hog, lickerish, open mouthed, piggish, ravenous, voracious), hevesli (ambitious, anxious, desirous, eager, earnest, enthusiastic, full of zeal, game, great, hellbent, intent, itching, itchy, keen, responsive, spirited, studious, zealous), hırslı (ambitious, angry, avid, competitive, covetous, greedy for, high-flying, impassioned, passionate, uptight, voracious), doyumsuz (avid, grasping, insatiable), açgözlü (acquisitive, avid, covetous, esurient, grabber, grasping, hoggish, insatiable, open mouthed, piggish, piglike, rapacious, ravenous, voracious, vulturine, vulturous, wolfish). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

gysganз (miser, miserly), husyt (avaracious), betnebis, aз gцz. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

ненажерливий (edacious, gluttonous, gourmand, ravenous, voracious, wide-mouthed), жадібний (acquisitive, avaricious, avid, covetous, edacious, esurient, grasping, open mouthed, piggish, rapacious), жадаючий (appetent, athirst, avid, hungry, longing, solicitous, thirsty, zealous). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

thiết tha (eager, keen), tham ăn (gluttonous, voracious), háu ăn tham lam, hám thèm khát. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

gwancus (voracious), trachwantus (covetous), bwyteig (voracious), bolrwth (gluttonous), blysig (lustful), barus (voracious), awchus (ardent, eager, keen, sharp). (various references)

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Ancestral Language Translations: Greedy

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

appetentes, avare, avari, avaris, avaro, avarus. (various references)

Old English450-1100

gifre. (various references)

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Bible Trace: Greedy

LanguageDateSourceProverbs Chapter 15, Verse 27
Latin405VulgateConturbat domum suam qui sectatur avaritiam qui autem odit munera vivet
Middle English1395WyclifHe al disturbith his hous, that folewith auarice; who forsothe hatith yiftis, shal liue. Bi merci and feith ben purgyd synnes; bi the drede forsothe of the Lord bowith doun eche man fro euel.
Jacobean English1611King JamesHe that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live.
Victorian English1833WebsterHe that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live.
Basic English1964OgdenHe whose desires are fixed on profit is a cause of trouble to his family; but he who has no desire for offerings will have life.

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Matched Bible Translations: Greedy

LanguageProverbs Chapter 15, Verse 27
Cebuano¶ Kadtong hakog sa ganancia nagasamok sa iyang kaugalingong balay; Apan kadtong nagadumot sa mga hiphip mabuhi.
CroatianTko se grabežu oda, razara svoj dom, a tko mrzi mito, živjet æe.
DanishDen øder sit Hus, hvem Vinding er alt; men leve skal den, der hader Gave.
DutchDie gierigheid pleegt, beroert zijn huis; maar die geschenken haat, zal leven.
FinnishVäärän voiton pyytäjä hävittää huoneensa, mutta joka lahjuksia vihaa, saa elää.
FrenchCelui qui est avide de gain trouble sa maison, Mais celui qui hait les présents vivra.
GermanDer Geizige verstört sein eigen Haus; wer aber Geschenke haßt, der wird leben.
Haitian Creole¶ Moun k'ap kouri dèyè lajan, se traka y'ap chache bay fanmi yo. Men, moun ki refize kite yo achte l' ap viv lontan.
HungarianMegháborítja az õ házát, a ki követi a telhetetlenséget; a ki pedig gyûlöli az ajándékokat, él az.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hariSiapa mencari keuntungan yang tidak halal, menghancurkan keluarganya sendiri. Siapa membenci uang sogok, akan hidup bahagia.
Indonesian-Terjemahan LamaBarangsiapa yang gelojoh akan laba yang keji itu membongkar rumahnya sendiri, tetapi orang yang benci akan pemberian itu selamatlah ia kelak.
ItalianSconvolge la sua casa chi è avido di guadagni disonesti; ma chi detesta i regali vivr .
Maori¶ Ko te tangata apo taonga, raruraru ana i a ia tona whare; ka ora ia te tangata e kino ana ki nga mea homai noa.
NorwegianDen som jager efter vinning, setter sitt hus i ulag, men den som hater gaver*, skal leve. # <* d.e. bestikkelse.>
RumanianCel lacom de ckwtig kwi turburq casa, dar cel ce urqwte mita va trqi. -
RussianлПТЩУФПМА'ЙЧЩК ТБУУФТПЙФ "ПН УЧПК, Б ОЕОБЧЙ"СЭЙК П"БТЛЙ 'Х"ЕФ ЦЙФШ.
SpanishEl que tiene ganancias injustas perturba su casa, pero el que aborrece el soborno vivirá.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Greedy

Derivations

Words ending with "greedy": ungreedy. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Greedy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: creedy, Freedy, Giraudy, Gledy, gradey, gread, greaty, Grecy, grede, greede, greedly, greedu, greek, greenday, greesy, greety, Greevy, greid, Greigy, grely, grendy, gresy, grey, greyey, gridy, grody, Groody, grued, gry, gwryd, Preedy, treedy. (additional references)

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Rhyming with "Greedy"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "greedy" (pronounced grē"dē)
4-r ē" d ēreedy.
3-ē" d ēbeady, deedy, Midi, needy, seedy, speedy, tweedy, weedy.

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Anagrams: Greedy

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: greyed.

Words within the letters "d-e-e-g-r-y"

-1 letter: edger, greed, gyred, redye, reedy.

-2 letters: deer, dere, dree, dreg, dyer, edge, edgy, eery, eger, eyed, eyer, eyre, geed, gree, grey, gyre, rede, reed.

-3 letters: dee, dey, dry, dye, ere, erg, eye, ged, gee, gey, red, ree, reg, rye.

-4 letters: de, ed, er, re, ye.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-e-g-r-y"
 

+2 letters: frogeyed, greedily, legendry, redyeing, ungreedy.

 

+3 letters: glyceride, legendary, redefying, redenying, remedying.

 

+4 letters: degeneracy, degradedly, detergency, divergency, gendarmery, glycerides, overdyeing, reedifying, resignedly.

 

+5 letters: aggrievedly, demagoguery, diglyceride, dingleberry, divergently, endearingly, gerrymander, hydrogenase, hydrogenate, legendarily, redeploying, reembodying.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Quotations: Familiar
9. Quotations: Fiction
10. Quotations: Speeches
11. Usage Frequency
12. Expressions
13. Expressions: Internet
14. Translations: Modern
15. Translations: Ancient
16. Bible Trace
17. Derivations
18. Rhymes
19. Anagrams
20. Bibliography


  

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