greedily

English

Etymology

From Middle English gredyly, gredily, from Old English grǣdiglīce, grǣdelīce; equivalent to greedy +‎ -ly.

Adverb

greedily (comparative more greedily, superlative most greedily)

1. In a greedy manner; with keen or ardent desire.

   Synonyms: avidly, eagerly

   The two dogs greedily devoured the meat.

   I gazed greedily on the gems in the shop window.

   • 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 344:

     There he ordered beer from the adenoidal Chinese manager and drank the afternoon away, greedily swilling bottle after bottle, feeling gradually his adulthood return.

Translations

in a greedy manner

• Armenian: ագահորեն (hy) (agahoren)
• Esperanto: avide (eo)
• Finnish: ahneesti (fi)
• French: avidement (fr)
• German: gierig (de)
• Hungarian: mohón (hu)
• Italian: cupidamente (it)
• Latin: avidē, avāriter
• Russian: жа́дно (ru) (žádno)
• Yiddish: זשעדנע (zhedne)

References

• “greedily”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Ridgeley