 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
acquisitive
adjective: eager to acquire and possess things especially material
possessions or ideas; "an acquisitive mind"; "an
aquisitive society in which the craving for material
things seems never satisfied" [ant: {unacquisitive}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Acquisitive \Ac*quis"i*tive\, adjective
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.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
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