acquisitive

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
acquisitive
    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}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Acquisitive \Ac*quis"i*tive\, a.
   1. Acquired. [Obs.]
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            He died not in his acquisitive, but in his native
            soil.                                 --Wotton.
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   2. Able or disposed to make acquisitions; acquiring; as, an
      acquisitive person or disposition.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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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