verb (used with object)


1. The state of wanting to have something that is already owned by someone else.

to desire wrongfully, inordinately, or without due regard for the rights of others:
to covet another’s property. 

To wrongfully desire something which belongs to someone else. 

To lust or to burn with lust after someone else’s property, or wife, which could lead to an immoral behavior of stealing, raping, commitng adultry, kidnaping, robing, lying or killing, for the sake possessing something that belongs to someone else.

2. to have an inordinate or wrongful desire.


He won the prize they all coveted.
verb (used without object)