Meanings
comparative more overgreedy · superlative most overgreedy · alternative over-greedy
- Greedy to excess.
'I am, perhaps, overgreedy, but I sense a good cook instinctively.'
1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 9, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 2701 more example
The commonwealth is sick of their own choice Their over-greedy love hath surfeited.
c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv]
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveexcessively gluttonous
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Old Englishofergrǣdiġ“overgreedy, too covetous”
- Middle English*overgredy
- Englishovergreedy
From Middle English *overgredy, from Old English ofergrǣdiġ (“overgreedy, too covetous”), equivalent to over- + greedy.
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