Acquisitive synonyms and antonyms

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greedy
The definition of greedy is someone who wants more of something than he is entitled to or the behavior of wanting more than you are entitled to.
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grasping
Exceedingly eager for material gain; avaricious.
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avaricious
Immoderately desirous of wealth or gain; greedy.
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rapacious
(Of an animal, usually a bird) Subsisting off live prey.
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covetous
Feeling, expressing, or characterized by a strong or immoderate desire for the possessions of another:
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prehensile
Able to seize, grasp, or hold, especially by wrapping around an object:
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selfish
Showing or arising from an excessive concern with oneself and a lack of concern for others:
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avid
Having or marked by keen interest and enthusiasm:
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hungry
Experiencing a desire or need for food.
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grabby
(Informal) Grasping; avaricious
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desire (related)
Having a strong urge to obtain or possess something, especially material wealth, in quantity
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give (related)
Having a strong urge to obtain or possess something, especially material wealth, in quantity
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unacquisitive (antonym)
eager to acquire and possess things especially material possessions or ideas
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all-devouring
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overgreedy
Greedy to excess.
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personalistic
Relating to personalism.
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privatistic
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quenchless
That cannot be quenched; unquenchable.
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self-devoted
Devoted in person, or voluntarily devoted.
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self-interested
Having self-interest; particularly concerned for one's self.
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self-occupied
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unappeased
That has not been appeased
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unsated
Not sated.
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unslakeable
That cannot be slaked
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unslaked
Not yet slaked
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money-mad
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self-advancing
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self-pleasing
(Euphemistic) masturbation
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predatory (related)
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individualistic (related)
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Find another word for acquisitive. In this page you can discover 31 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for acquisitive, like: greedy, grasping, avaricious, rapacious, See syn. study at, covetous, prehensile, selfish, avid, hungry and grabby.
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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.

  • In 1046, and again in 1061, two dangerous pagan risings shook the very foundations of the infant church and state; the western provinces were in constant danger from the attacks of the acquisitive emperors, and from the south and southeast two separate hordes of fierce barbarians (the Petchenegs in 1067-1068, and the Kumanians in 1071-1072) burst over the land.

  • On returning to the Ukraine he settled down quietly on his paternal estate, and in all probability history would never have known his name if the intolerable persecution of a neighbouring Polish squire, who stole his hayricks and flogged his infant son to death, had not converted the thrifty and acquisitive Cossack husbandman into one of the most striking and sinister figures of modern times.

  • He appears to have been very acquisitive in his ability to obtain prebends holding many during his life.

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