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acquisitive - 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" |
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unacquisitive not acquisitive; not interested in acquiring or owning anything
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accumulative marked by acquiring or amassing; "we live in an accumulative society"
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avaricious,
grabby,
grasping,
covetous,
greedy,
prehensile immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth; "they are avaricious and will do anything for money"; "casting covetous eyes on his neighbor's fields"; "a grasping old miser"; "grasping commercialism"; "greedy for money and power"; "grew richer and greedier"; "prehensile employers stingy with raises for their employees"
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possessive desirous of owning; "small children are so possessive they will not let others play with their toys"
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plundering given to taking by force what is desired
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predaceous,
predacious,
predatory living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain; "predatory capitalists"; "a predatory, insensate society in which innocence and decency can prove fatal"- Peter S. Prescott; "a predacious kind of animal--the early geological gangster"- W.E.Swinton
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voracious,
rapacious,
ravening excessively greedy and grasping; "a rapacious divorcee on the prowl"; "ravening creditors"; "paying taxes to voracious governments"
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sordid meanly avaricious and mercenary; "sordid avarice"; "sordid material interests"
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