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Meaning of लोभ in English

  • An excessive or inordinate desire of gain; greediness after wealth; covetousness; cupidity.
  • An inordinate desire for some supposed good.
  • Strong desire.
  • A strong or inordinate desire of obtaining and possessing some supposed good; excessive desire for riches or money; -- in a bad sense.
  • The state or quality of being insatiable; insatiableness.
  • The act of inveigling, or the state of being inveigled; that which inveigles; enticement; seduction.
  • The quality of being rapacious; rapaciousness; ravenousness; as, the rapacity of pirates; the rapacity of wolves.
  • The act or practice of extorting or exacting by oppressive injustice; exorbitant greediness of gain.
  • The quality or state of being stingy.
  • A retired nook; especially, a small, sheltered inlet, creek, or bay; a recess in the shore.
  • A strip of prairie extending into woodland; also, a recess in the side of a mountain.
  • A concave molding.
  • A member, whose section is a concave curve, used especially with regard to an inner roof or ceiling, as around a skylight.
  • To arch over; to build in a hollow concave form; to make in the form of a cove.
  • To brood, cover, over, or sit over, as birds their eggs.
  • A boy or man of any age or station.
  • of Cove
  • A town in the county of Warwick, England.
  • That may be coveted; desirable.
  • To wish for with eagerness; to desire possession of; -- used in a good sense.
  • To long for inordinately or unlawfully; to hanker after (something forbidden).
  • To have or indulge inordinate desire.
  • One who covets.
  • Avarice.
  • Very desirous; eager to obtain; -- used in a good sense.
  • Inordinately desirous; excessively eager to obtain and possess (esp. money); avaricious; -- in a bad sense.
  • A brood or hatch of birds; an old bird with her brood of young; hence, a small flock or number of birds together; -- said of game; as, a covey of partridges.
  • A company; a bevy; as, a covey of girls.
  • To brood; to incubate.
  • A pantry.
  • An eager desire or longing; greediness; as, a greed of gain.
  • The quality of being greedy; vehement and selfish desire.

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