acquisitive

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: ac=quis=i=tive

CIDE DICTIONARY

acquisitive, a. 

•  Acquired.  [1913 Webster]

  "He died not in his acquisitive, but in his native soil."  [1913 Webster]
•  Able or disposed to make acquisitions; acquiring; as, an acquisitive person or disposition.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

acquisitive, adj. keen to acquire things; avaricious; materialistic.

Derivative

acquisitively adv. acquisitiveness n.

Etymology

F acquisitive or LL acquisitivus (as ACQUIRE)

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

acquisitive

Greed

N greed, covetousness, ravenousness, venality, avidity, cupidity, acquisitiveness (acquisition), desire, greed, greediness, avarice, avidity, rapacity, extortion, selfishness, auri sacra fames, grasping, craving, canine appetite, rapacity, greedy, avaricious, covetous, acquisitive, grasping, rapacious, lickerish, greedy as a hog, overeager, voracious, ravenous, ravenous as a wolf, openmouthed, extortionate, exacting, sordid, alieni appetens, insatiable, insatiate, unquenchable, quenchless, omnivorous.