English adjective: acquisitive | |||
1. | acquisitive eager to acquire and possess things especially material possessions or ideas | ||
Samples | An acquisitive mind. An acquisitive society in which the craving for material things seems never satisfied. | ||
Similar | accumulative, avaricious, covetous, grabby, grasping, greedy, plundering, possessive, predaceous, predacious, predatory, prehensile, rapacious, ravening, sordid, voracious | ||
Attribute | acquisitiveness | ||
Antonyms | unacquisitive | ||