GREED
What does "GREED" mean?
An intense and selfish desire for more wealth, food, or possessions than one needs.
Meanings
- Excessive, selfish desire for wealth, power, food, or possessions. Their greed for profit ruined the company's reputation.
Did you know?
- 'Greedy' is older than 'greed': for centuries English had only the adjective, and the noun was carved out of it by back-formation, surfacing in writing around the 1600s.
Word origin
A back-formation from the adjective 'greedy', which comes from Old English 'grædig' (hungry, voracious), from Proto-Germanic '*grēdagaz'.
Remember it
GREED is full of E's, like wide-open eyes that always want to see more.
A little poem
The full hand reaches anyway,
knocking the cup it cannot hold-
and the floor drinks what the throat would not.
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What it teaches
Greed measures wealth by what's still missing, so the richer it grows the poorer it feels.
Quick facts
What does GREED mean?
An intense and selfish desire for more wealth, food, or possessions than one needs.
Is GREED a valid word?
Yes — GREED is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is GREED?
GREED has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does GREED come from?
A back-formation from the adjective 'greedy', which comes from Old English 'grædig' (hungry, voracious), from Proto-Germanic '*grēdagaz'.
What can GREED teach us?
Greed measures wealth by what's still missing, so the richer it grows the poorer it feels.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.