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Acquisitive definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

ACQUIS'ITIVE, a. that is acquired; acquired; [but improper.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1835 strongly desirous of acquiring and possessing Synonyms: see covetous • acquisitively adverb • acquisitiveness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. keen to acquire things; avaricious; materialistic. Derivatives: acquisitively adv. acquisitiveness n. Etymology: F acquisitive or LL acquisitivus (as ACQUIRE)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you describe a person or an organization as acquisitive, you do not approve of them because you think they are too concerned with getting new possessions. We live in an acquisitive society... ADJ: usu ADJ n [disapproval]

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Acquiring, disposed to acquire, eager for gain.

Moby Thesaurus

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