acquisitive

3 definitions found

acquisitive - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Acquisitive \Ac*quis"i*tive\, a.
     1. Acquired. [Obs.]
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              He died not in his acquisitive, but in his native
              soil.                                 --Wotton.
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     2. Able or disposed to make acquisitions; acquiring; as, an
        acquisitive person or disposition.
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acquisitive - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  acquisitive
      adj 1: eager to acquire and possess things especially material
             possessions or ideas; "an acquisitive mind"; "an
             acquisitive society in which the craving for material
             things seems never satisfied" [ant: unacquisitive]

acquisitive - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  76 Moby Thesaurus words for "acquisitive":
     a hog for, acquiring, all-devouring, ambitious for self, autistic,
     avaricious, avid, bottomless, careerist, coveting, covetous,
     demanding, desirous, devouring, egotistical, esurient, exacting,
     exigent, gluttonous, gobbling, grabby, grasping, greedy, hoggish,
     individualistic, insatiable, insatiate, itchy, limitless,
     mercenary, miserly, money-hungry, money-mad, narcissistic,
     omnivorous, overgreedy, personalistic, piggish, possessive,
     prehensile, privatistic, quenchless, rapacious, ravening, ravenous,
     remote, self-absorbed, self-admiring, self-advancing, self-besot,
     self-centered, self-considerative, self-contained, self-devoted,
     self-esteeming, self-indulgent, self-interested, self-jealous,
     self-occupied, self-pleasing, self-seeking, self-serving,
     self-sufficient, selfish, slakeless, sordid, swinish, unappeasable,
     unappeased, unquenchable, unsated, unsatisfied, unslakeable,
     unslaked, venal, voracious