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| type | a |
| lex_filenum | 00 |
| def | eager to acquire and possess things especially material possessions or ideas |
| examples | an acquisitive mind an acquisitive society in which the craving for material things seems never satisfied |
| Outgoing links | |
| Attribute | acquisitiveness |
| Derivationally related form | acquisitive → acquire |
| Derivationally related form | acquisitive → acquisitiveness |
| Antonym | acquisitive → unacquisitive |
| Similar to | accumulative; avaricious, covetous, grabby, grasping, greedy, prehensile; possessive; plundering; predaceous, predacious, predatory; rapacious, ravening, voracious; sordid |
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| Similar to | accumulative; avaricious, covetous, grabby, grasping, greedy, prehensile; possessive; plundering; predaceous, predacious, predatory; rapacious, ravening, voracious; sordid |
| Antonym | unacquisitive → acquisitive |
| Derivationally related form | acquisitiveness → acquisitive |
| Attribute | acquisitiveness |
| Derivationally related form | acquire → acquisitive |
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