| ADJECTIVE | all | acquisitive | eager to acquire and possess things especially material possessions or ideas |
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| Sounds | ahkwih'zahtihv | |
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| Rhymes | abortive ... vituperative: 304 rhymes with ihv... | |
| Meaning | eager to acquire and possess things especially material possessions or ideas. | |
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| Attribute of | acquisitiveness | Strong desire to acquire and possess |
| Narrower | accumulative | marked by acquiring or amassing |
| 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 |
| Spanish | acaparador, adquisitivo, codiciosa, codicioso, los maniáticos | |
| Catalan | acaparador, cobdiciós | |
| Nouns | acquisitiveness | strong desire to acquire and possess |
| Verbs | acquire | come into the possession of something concrete or abstract |
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