covetously

Definitions

In a manner showing a strong desire to possess something belonging to someone else.

With an intense, often selfish, longing or craving for wealth or possessions.

Examples

He stared covetously at the diamond necklace displayed in the shop window.

The young heir looked covetously at his uncle's vast estate, waiting for the day it would finally be his.

Synonyms

greedily avariciously graspingly rapaciously enviously jealously acquisitively

Antonyms

generously selflessly magnanimously contentedly charitably liberally unselfishly