Usually means: Desiring more than one's share.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word Greedy:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. greedy: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. greedy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. greedy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. greedy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. greedy: Vocabulary.com
  6. Greedy, greedy: Wordnik
  7. greedy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. greedy: Wiktionary
  9. greedy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. greedy: Dictionary.com
  11. greedy: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. greedy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Greedy (Ariana Grande song), Greedy (disambiguation), Greedy (film), Greedy (song), Greedy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Greedy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. greedy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. greedy: Rhymezone
  17. greedy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. greedy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. Greedy: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  20. greedy: Free Dictionary
  21. greedy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. greedy: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. Greedy: Dictionary.com
  24. greedy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  25. greedy: Infoplease Dictionary

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Greedy (film), greedy: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. greedy: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. greedy: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. greedy: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (greedy)

▸ adjective:  Having greed; consumed by selfish desires.
▸ adjective:  Prone to overeat.
▸ adjective:  (regular expressions) Tending to match as much text as possible.
▸ adjective:  (computer science, of an algorithm) That tries to find the global optimum by finding the local optimum at each stage.
▸ adjective:  (archaic) Greedily sought or pursued.

Similar:
gluttonous, devouring, esurient, grasping, grabby, avid, avaricious, covetous, desirous, acquisitive, more...

Opposite:
generous, selfless, unselfish, altruistic

Types:
avaricious, covetous, miserly, prodigal, spendthrift, thrifty, more...

Phrases:
Greedy algorithm, too greedy, greedy guts, greedy gut, Greedy Williams, more...

Colors:
    gold,     green,     yellow,     olive,     emerald, more...


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Similar:
gluttonous, devouring, esurient, grasping, grabby, avid, avaricious, covetous, desirous, acquisitive, more...

Opposite:
generous, selfless, unselfish, altruistic

Types:
avaricious, covetous, miserly, prodigal, spendthrift, thrifty, more...

Phrases:
Greedy algorithm, too greedy, greedy guts, greedy gut, Greedy Williams, Greedy Smith, Greedy coloring, greedy person, greedy people, excessively greedy and grasping, a greedy woman, not greedy, greedy for money, more...

Colors:
    gold,     green,     yellow,     olive,     emerald, more...



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