English > acquisitive: 1 sense > adjective 1| Meaning | eager to acquire and possess things especially material possessions or ideas. |
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| Examples | - "an acquisitive mind"
- "an acquisitive society in which the craving for material things seems never satisfied"
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| Attribute of | acquisitiveness | Strong desire to acquire and possess |
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| Narrower | accumulative | marked by acquiring or amassing |
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| avaricious, covetous, grabby, grasping, greedy, prehensile | immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth |
| plundering | given to taking by force what is desired |
| possessive | desirous of owning |
| 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 |
| Opposite | unacquisitive | not acquisitive |
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| Spanish | acaparador, adquisitivo, codiciosa, codicioso, los maniáticos |
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| Catalan | acaparador, cobdiciós |
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| Nouns | acquisitiveness | strong desire to acquire and possess |
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| Verbs | acquire | come into the possession of something concrete or abstract |
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