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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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