<p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>greedier, greediest.</li><li>excessively or inordinately desirous of wealth, profit, etc.: The greedy owners of the company paid their employees too little and charged their customers too much.</li><li>Synonyms: selfish, rapacious, grasping.</li><li>Antonyms: unselfish, generous.</li><li>having an excessive desire for food or drink: That greedy guy ate four of those brownies before anyone else got any!</li><li>Synonyms: insatiable, gluttonous, voracious, ravenous.</li><li>keenly desirous; eager (often followed by of or for): greedy for praise.</li><li>Synonyms: covetous, anxious.</li><li>requiring or using much of a specified thing (often used in combination): These big trucks are fuel-greedy.</li><li>Crops that are greedy for water should not be planted in dry regions.</li><li>Computers: of or relating to an algorithm, search, etc., that operates one step at a time instead of checking all possible paths or solutions all at once and then selecting the one with the best overall outcome: A result may be achieved faster with a greedy search, but that result is not always the correct or best one.</li><li>of or relating to an operator or quantifier in a search query that will return the largest match result possible.</li></ul>