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acquisitive
adjective
(ac-quis-i-tive)
eager to acquire and possess things especially material possessions or ideas
Antonyms:
unacquisitive
,
Examples:
An acquisitive mind.
An acquisitive society in which the craving for material things seems never satisfied.
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covetous
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avaricious
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rapacious
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predatory
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ravening
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greedy
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voracious
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predacious
,
possessive
,
sordid
,
plundering
,
retentive
,
grabby
,
prehensile
,
grasping
,
accumulative
,
predaceous
,
recollective
,
opportunistic
,
expansionist
,
aggressive
,
insatiable
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antisocial
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entrepreneurial
,
individualistic
,
gluttonous
,
ruthless
,
altruistic
,
ambitious
,
materialistic
,
egocentric
,
capitalistic
,
accretive
,
profitable
,
ungeared
,
overcapitalized
,
synergistic
,
cyclical
,
bullish
,
leveraged
,
levered
,
cannibalistic
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noncyclical
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litigious
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antipathetic
,
clubbable
,
amoral
,
pawnbroking
,
edacious
,
inorganic
,
biddable
,
dirigiste
,
sociopathic
,
diversified
,
buccaneering
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strategic
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abstemious
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attractive
,
buoyant
,
supernormal
,
complementary
,
benign
,
unslaked
,
omnivorous
,
hostile
,
transformational
,
erinaceous
,
selective
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overgreedy
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puritanical
,
undrawn
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obsessional
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hubristic
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incestuous
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cautious
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growthy
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recessionary
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avidious
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indulgent
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adventurous
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oligarchical
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unsated
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uninvested
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parasitical
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unromantic
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augean
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larcenous
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freebooting
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hiving
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paranoid
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hedonistic
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acquiescent
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warlike
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robust
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lickerous
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propitious
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rivalrous
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enviable
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polygynous
,
closemouthed
,
acquisitive
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