Acquisitive Synonyms and Antonyms

ə-kwĭzĭ-tĭv
Having a strong urge to obtain or possess something, especially material wealth, in quantity
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. greedy
  2. avaricious
  3. covetous
  4. grasping
  5. avid
  6. rapacious
  7. hungry
  8. prehensile
  9. grabby
  10. all-devouring
  11. overgreedy
  12. personalistic
  13. selfish
  14. privatistic
  15. quenchless
  16. self-devoted
  17. self-interested
  18. self-occupied
  19. unappeased
  20. unsated
  21. unslakeable
  22. unslaked
Antonyms:
  1. unacquisitive
Synonyms:
(Noun)
  1. money-mad
  2. self-advancing
  3. self-pleasing

Words Related to Acquisitive

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. See syn. study at
  2. desire
  3. give
  4. predatory

Acquisitive Sentence Examples

  • From here however, the company became increasingly acquisitive and ambitious.

  • Another luxury deal handled by Cavendish was the sale of jewelry chain Mappin & Webb to the highly acquisitive Icelandic investor Baugur.

  • What are the links between drug use and crime, particularly acquisitive crime?

  • Of income you've lost off acquisitive overtures wound up with.

  • Acquisitive crime (particularly shoplifting, burglary and fraud) are the primary means of funding drug misuse.

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