Showing extreme cupidity; painfully desirous of another's advantages:
— He was never covetous before he met her.
— Jealous of his success and covetous of his possessions.

synonyms: envious, jealous.

Roget 921: envious, invidious, covetous; alieni appetens [Lat.].   

Roget 943: selfish; self-seeking, self-indulgent, self-interested, self-centered; wrapped up in self, wrapt up in self^†, centered in self; egotistic, egotistical; egoistical^†.    illiberal, mean, ungenerous, narrow-minded; mercenary, venal; covetous etc. 819.    unspiritual, earthly, earthly-minded; mundane; worldly, worldly-minded; worldly-wise; timeserving^†.    interested; alieni appetens sui profusus [Lat.].    ... show more

Polish: zazdrosny

Immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth:
— Casting covetous eyes on his neighbor's fields.

synonyms: avaricious, grabby, grasping, greedy, prehensile.

Roget 817a: greedy, avaricious, covetous, acquisitive, grasping; rapacious; lickerish^†.    greedy as a hog; overeager; voracious; ravenous, ravenous as a wolf; openmouthed, extortionate, exacting, sordid^†, alieni appetens [Lat.]; insatiable, insatiate; unquenchable, quenchless; omnivorous.    ... show more

Roget 819: parsimonious, penurious, stingy, miserly, mean, shabby, peddling, scrubby, penny wise, near, niggardly, close; fast handed, close handed, strait handed; close fisted, hard fisted, tight fisted; tight, sparing; chary; grudging, griping etc. v.; illiberal, ungenerous, churlish, hidebound, sordid, mercenary, venal, covetous, usurious, avaricious, greedy, extortionate, rapacious.    ... show more

Polish: chciwy, zachłanny, pazerny