greedily

«greedily» in Mova's school dictionary: In a greedy way, wanting or taking more than you need… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adverb (greedily)

meaning for a pupil

1) In a greedy way, wanting or taking more than you need, especially food or money. tree →

2) Very eagerly, wanting something very much: reading greedily. tree →

sense in the lessons

In stories it shows a character is selfish or very hungry; in everyday life it describes gobbling food. Phrases: eat greedily, look greedily at, grab greedily.

examples

• The dog ate its dinner greedily. tree →
• He greedily grabbed all the sweets for himself. tree →
• The dragon looked greedily at the gold. tree →
• She read the book greedily, page after page. tree →
• The baby birds opened their beaks greedily. tree →
• Don't eat so greedily, you'll get a stomach ache. tree →
• She at once made herself a salad of it, and ate it greedily. tree →

note

Adverb from greedy: change y to i and add -ly. Spelling trap: greedily, not greedyly. Greed is the noun.

In the corpora

• There is that coveteth greedily all the day long; but the righteous giveth and spareth not.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «greedily» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.