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発音

• enPR: kŭv'ət-əs, IPA: /ˈkʌvətəs/

形容詞

covetous (comparative more covetous, superlative most covetous)

1. Distastefully desirous or keen, especially for something belonging to someone else; avaricious.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:greedy

   • 1545 July 12 (Gregorian calendar), Thomas Elyot, A Preseruatiue agaynste Deth, London: […] Thomas Berthelet, […], →OCLC, signature [B.vi.], recto:

     The couaitous deſyre of riche men is euer vnſaciable. It always raueneth and neuer is ſatisfied.

   • 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “(please specify the page)”, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, pages 125–126:

     Intimate as she was with Lady Anne, she would not but see how little the Misses Granard had of the ordinary pleasures of their age—but it never entered into her head to add to them—had one of their sweet faces been seen in her box at the opera, it might have attracted that attention she was feverishly covetous of engrossing.

派生語

• covetously
• covetousness
• overcovetous
• uncovetous

関連する語

• covet

Further reading

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “covetous”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “covetous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.