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Summary

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covetous:
- désireux; avide; avidement; assoiffé
Wiktionary:
- covetousness → convoitise, avidité
- covetous → cupide, avide

English

Detailed Translations for covetousness from English to French

covetousness:

Translation Matrix for covetousness:

Noun	Related Translations	Other Translations
-	avarice; avariciousness; avaritia; cupidity; greed; rapacity
Other	Related Translations	Other Translations
-	greed

Related Words for "covetousness":

covetous

Synonyms for "covetousness":

envy; enviousness
avarice; avariciousness; cupidity; greed
greed; rapacity; avaritia; mortal sin; deadly sin

Related Definitions for "covetousness":

reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)¹
extreme greed for material wealth¹
an envious eagerness to possess something¹

Wiktionary Translations for covetousness:

covetousness

noun

desire for the possession of something
- covetousness → convoitise

covetousness

noun

caractère de celui, de celle, qui est avide. désir excessif de posséder, de consommer.
- avidité → avidity; eagerness; covetousness; greediness
désir immodéré, dérégler.
- convoitise → covetousness; covetise; lust

covetous:

covetous adj

covetous (desirous; eager; greedy; avid; keen; thirsty; eagre)
désireux; avide; avidement; assoiffé
- désireux adj
- avide adj
- avidement adj
- assoiffé adj

Translation Matrix for covetous:

Adjective	Related Translations	Other Translations
-	avaricious; envious; grabby; grasping; greedy; jealous; prehensile
Other	Related Translations	Other Translations
-	greedy; mercenary
Modifier	Related Translations	Other Translations
assoiffé	avid; covetous; desirous; eager; eagre; greedy; keen; thirsty	thirsty
avide	avid; covetous; desirous; eager; eagre; greedy; keen; thirsty	avid; desirous; eager; eager for; eagre; grasping; greedy; hankering; keen; keen on; longing; longing for; moneygrubbing; rapacious; yearning
avidement	avid; covetous; desirous; eager; eagre; greedy; keen; thirsty	avid; desirous; eager; eagre; keen
désireux	avid; covetous; desirous; eager; eagre; greedy; keen; thirsty	avid; desirous; eager; eager for; eagre; hankering; keen; keen on; longing; longing for; yearning

Related Words for "covetous":

covetousness, covetously

Synonyms for "covetous":

envious; jealous; desirous; wishful
avaricious; grabby; grasping; greedy; prehensile; acquisitive

Related Definitions for "covetous":

immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth¹
- casting covetous eyes on his neighbor's fields¹
showing extreme cupidity; painfully desirous of another's advantages¹
- he was never covetous before he met her¹
- jealous of his success and covetous of his possessions¹

Wiktionary Translations for covetous:

Cross Translation:

From	To	Via
• covetous	→ cupide; avide	↔ rangig — habgierig

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