ACQUISITIVE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Eager to acquire and possess things especially material possessions or ideas

Example:

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

Classified under:

Adjectives

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)