Greyed vs Greed - What's the difference?
greyed | greed |
(grey)
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=17 * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= A selfish or excessive desire for more than is needed or deserved, especially of money, wealth, food, or other possessions.
As a verb greyed
is (grey).As a noun greed is
a selfish or excessive desire for more than is needed or deserved, especially of money, wealth, food, or other possessions.greyed
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*grey
English
Adjective
(greyer)citation, passage=The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey , the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue. […].}}
Revenge of the nerds, passage=Think of banking today and the image is of grey -suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.}}
Usage notes
A mnemonic for remembering which spelling is used where: gre'''y'' is the (British) '''E'''nglish spelling, while ''gr'''a'''y'' is the '''A merican spelling. However, ''grey is also frequently found in American English.Derived terms
{{der3, battleship grey , grey area , greybeard , grey eminence , grey-haired , greyhound , greyness , grey ghost , grey matter}}See also
*Anagrams
* 1000 English basic words ----greed
English
Noun
- His greed was his undoing.
- What drove them was their ambition, their greed for power.