Synset

eager to acquire and possess things especially material possessions or ideas
<adj.all>

sample sentences

"an acquisitive mind"
"an acquisitive society in which the craving for material things seems never satisfied"

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

acquire acquisitiveness

antonym

semantic pointers

attribute

acquisitiveness

similar to

accumulative greedy, avaricious, covetous, grabby, grasping, prehensile possessive plundering predaceous, predacious, predatory rapacious, ravening, voracious sordid