Greedyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈɡɹiːdi/
• 韻: -iːdi

形容詞

greedy (comparative greedier, superlative greediest)

1. Having greed; consumed by selfish desires.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 14, page 311:

     For with ſuch puiſſance and impetuous maine / Thoſe Champions broke on them, that forſt the fly, / Like ſcattered Sheepe, whenas the Shepherds ſwaine / A Lyon and a Tigre doth eſpye, / With greedy pace forth ruſhing from the foreſt nye.

   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

     “ […] Churchill, my dear fellow, we have such greedy sharks, and wolves in lamb's clothing. Oh, dear, there's so much to tell you, so many warnings to give you, but all that must be postponed for the moment.”

2. Prone to overeat.
3. (regular expressions) Tending to match as much text as possible.

   Antonyms: lazy, nongreedy, reluctant

   This regular expression performs a greedy match.

4. (computer science, of an algorithm) That tries to find the global optimum by finding the local optimum at each stage.

   Antonym: nongreedy

5. (archaic) Greedily sought or pursued.
   • c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene ii:

     Suppoſe they be in number infinit,
     Yet being voyd of Martiall diſcipline,
     All running headlong after greedie ſpoiles: […]
     Their careleſſe ſwords ſhal lanch their fellows throats
     And make vs triumph in their ouerthrow.

同意語

• (having greed): Thesaurus:greedy
• (prone to overeat): gluttonous

派生語

派生した語

• Sranan Tongo: gridi

Further reading

• “greedy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “greedy”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

アナグラム

• greyed