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Esurient vs Greedy - What's the difference?

esurient | greedy |

As adjectives the difference between esurient and greedy

is that esurient is very hungry or greedy; ravenous while greedy is having greed; consumed by selfish desires.

As a noun esurient

is one who is hungry or greedy.

esurient

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Very hungry or greedy; ravenous.
    • (Bailey)
  • * Carlyle
    • Poor, but esurient .
  • *1983 , (Alasdair Gray), ‘Logopandocy’, Canongate 2012 (Every Short Story 1951-2012 ), p. 177:
  • *:I answered that such freedom would be worse than the vilest slavery, for it would leave me free to do nothing but grappel till death with clusterfist creditors and esurient Kirkists […].
  • avid

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who is hungry or greedy.
  • * Wood
    • An insatiable esurient after riches.

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    greedy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Having greed; consumed by selfish desires.
  • * , chapter=7
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=“[…] Churchill, my dear fellow, we have such greedy sharks, and wolves in lamb's clothing. Oh, dear, there's so much to tell you, so many warnings to give you, but all that must be postponed for the moment.”}}
  • Prone to overeat.
  • (computing) Tending to match as much text as possible.

    • Synonyms

    * gluttonous * See also

    Derived terms

    * greed (by back-formation) * greediness * greedy-guts

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