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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. eager to acquire and possess things especially material possessions or ideas;
- Example: "an acquisitive mind"
- Example: "an acquisitive society in which the craving for material things seems never satisfied"


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Acquisitive \Ac*quis"i*tive\, a. 1. Acquired. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] He died not in his acquisitive, but in his native soil. --Wotton. [1913 Webster] 2. Able or disposed to make acquisitions; acquiring; as, an acquisitive person or disposition. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

acquisitive adj 1: eager to acquire and possess things especially material possessions or ideas; "an acquisitive mind"; "an acquisitive society in which the craving for material things seems never satisfied" [ant: unacquisitive]