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ACQUISITIVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does acquisitive mean? 

ACQUISITIVE (adjective)
  The adjective ACQUISITIVE has 1 sense:

1. eager to acquire and possess things especially material possessions or ideasplay

  Familiarity information: ACQUISITIVE used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ACQUISITIVE (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Eager to acquire and possess things especially material possessions or ideas

Context example:

an acquisitive society in which the craving for material things seems never satisfied

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)


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