acquisitive
Adjective
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Eager to acquire and possess things especially material possessions or ideas (synset 300029456)
"an acquisitive mind"; "an acquisitive society in which the craving for material things seems never satisfied"tells us about: acquisitiveness - strong desire to acquire and possesssimilar to:
- accumulative - marked by acquiring or amassing
- avaricious, covetous, grabby, grasping, greedy, prehensile - immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth
- possessive - desirous of owning
- plundering - given to taking by force what is desired
- predaceous, predacious, predatory - living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain
- rapacious, ravening, voracious - excessively greedy and grasping
- sordid - meanly avaricious and mercenary
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