greedy; avaricious; rapacious; insatiable
Describes a strong, often excessive desire for money, possessions, power, or food. Can be used as a noun or na-adjective.
彼は強欲な商人だ。
He is a greedy merchant.
He was known as a greedy merchant.
強欲に利益を追求する。
Pursue profit greedily.
権力を得ると人は強欲になりやすい。
People tend to become greedy once they gain power.
欲張り is the everyday, casual word for being greedy, while 強欲 is stronger and more formal, suggesting an insatiable, almost sinister greed.
貪欲 can describe a voracious, even admirable eagerness (e.g. for knowledge), whereas 強欲 is almost always negative, describing greed for money or power.
強欲 stresses the intensity or ruthlessness of greed (often in formal/critical contexts), whereas 欲深 emphasizes the depth and persistence of the desire itself.
強欲 is a more formal or literary noun/na-adjective for avarice, whereas 欲深い is a colloquial i-adjective directly describing someone's character.
無欲 describes someone with little or no desire for gain, the opposite of the insatiable greed described by 強欲.
abnormally greedy and cruel; rapacious and inhuman
Standard kanji spelling.
Rarely used kanji form; 慾 is a variant of 欲.
Compound of 強 (strong) and 欲 (desire). The exact historical derivation is uncertain, but the combination naturally yields the meaning of intense greed.