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ACQUISITIVE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Eager to acquire and possess things especially material possessions or ideas
Example:
an acquisitive society in which the craving for material things seems never satisfied
Classified under:
Similar:
accumulative (marked by acquiring or amassing)
avaricious; covetous; grabby; grasping; greedy; prehensile (immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth)
possessive (desirous of owning)
plundering (given to taking by force what is desired)
predaceous; predacious; predatory (living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain)
rapacious; ravening; voracious (excessively greedy and grasping)
sordid (meanly avaricious and mercenary)
Attribute:
acquisitiveness (strong desire to acquire and possess)
Antonym:
unacquisitive (not acquisitive; not interested in acquiring or owning anything)
Derivation:
acquire (come into the possession of something concrete or abstract)
acquisitiveness (strong desire to acquire and possess)
