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# avaricious

«avaricious» in Mova's school dictionary: **Greedy for money and riches, always wanting more** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (more avaricious, most avaricious)

### meaning for a pupil

Greedy for money and riches, always wanting more. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/avaricious/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, a greedy king, vizier or miser who wants all the gold for himself.

### examples

- The avaricious king hoarded his gold. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/avaricious/#x1)
- An avaricious man never has enough. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/avaricious/#x2)
- The avaricious vizier wanted every jewel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/avaricious/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «avaricious» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/avaricious/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.