- Types Of Speech
- You can use covetous as a adjective satellite in a sentence.
- About Covetous
- A 3 syllables adjective satellite and 8 letters with the letters c, e, o, s, t, u, and v, 4 consonants, 4 vowels and 3 syllables with the middle letters et. Covetous starts with and ends in a consonant with the starting letters c, co, cov, cove, covet, and the ending characters are s, us, ous, tous, etous, ..
- Definition
- Immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth; "they are avaricious and will do anything for money"; "casting covetous eyes on his neighbor''s fields"; "a grasping old miser"; "grasping commercialism"; "greedy for money and power"; "grew richer and greed
- Origin/Roots
- Middle English
- School Grade
- Covetous is set as a sat word that starts with c, ends with s, 3 syllables, 4 vowels and 8 letters.
- Pig Latin
- Covetous in Pig Latin is said as "ovetouscay or ovetouscway".
- Unigram
- c | o | v | e | t | o | u | s
- Bigram
- co | ov | ve | et | to | ou | us
- Trigram
- cov | ove | vet | eto | tou | ous
- Quadrigram
- cove | ovet | veto | etou | tous
- Word Gram
- Adjective Satellite Examples
- immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth;
"they are avaricious and will do anything for money";
"casting covetous eyes on his neighbor's fields";
"a grasping old miser";
"grasping commercialism";
"greedy for money and power";
"grew richer and greed - showing extreme cupidity;
painfully desirous of another's advantages;
"he was never covetous before he met her";
"jealous of his success and covetous of his possessions";
"envious of their art collection"
| Synonym | Definition |
|---|---|
| Acquiring | the act of acquiring something "I envied his talent for acquiring" "he''s much more interested in the getting than in the giving" |
| Acquisitive | eager to acquire and possess things especially material possessions or ideas "an acquisitive mind" "an aquisitive society in which the craving for material things seems never satisfied" |
| Aegir | a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary) |
| All Knowing | |
| All Devouring | |
| All Engulfing | |
| All Knowing | |
| Apperceptive | able to relate new percepts to past experience |
| Appercipient | |
| Apprehending |
View all cognitive synonyms for Covetous
| Anagram | Definition |
|---|---|
| Covetous | immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth "they are avaricious and will do anything for money" "casting covetous eyes on his neighbor''s fields" "a grasping old miser" "grasping commercialism" "greedy for money and power" "grew richer and greed |
View English words with the unique letters used in covetous. Words With The Letters Ceostuv
| Similar Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Acquisitive | eager to acquire and possess things especially material possessions or ideas; "an acquisitive mind"; "an aquisitive society in which the craving for material things seems never satisfied" |
Covetous Is In These Word Lists
- Starts With C
- Ends With S
- Spelled With / Contains Letters

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