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acquisitiveadjective having or marked by an eager and often selfish desire especially for material possessionsacquisitive developers are trying to tear down the historic home and build a shopping mall avaricious, avid, coveting, covetous, grabby, grasping, greedy, mercenary, moneygrubbing, rapacious commercialistic, materialistic, philistinedesirous, eager, itchy, lickerish, miserlyhoggish, piggish, piggy, swinishdevouring, gluttonous, gobbling, insatiable, ravenous, unquenchable, voraciousegocentric, egoistic(also egoistical), egotistic(or egotistical), self-centered, self-seekingdiscontent, discontented, malcontent, unsatisfiedbegrudging, grudging, resentful nonmaterialisticaltruistic, bounteous, bountiful, charitable, freehanded, generous, greathearted, handsome, liberal, magnanimous, munificent, openhanded, openhearted, selfless, unselfish, unsparingcontrolled, moderate, restrained, temperatecontent, sated, satisfied covetous, greedy, acquisitive, grasping, avaricious mean having or showing a strong desire for especially material possessions.covetous implies inordinate desire often for another's possessions.covetous of his brother's country estate greedy stresses lack of restraint and often of discrimination in desire.greedy for status symbols acquisitive implies both eagerness to possess and ability to acquire and keep.an eagerly acquisitive mind grasping adds to covetous and greedy an implication of selfishness and often suggests unfair or ruthless means.a hard grasping trader who cheated the natives avaricious implies obsessive acquisitiveness especially of money and strongly suggests stinginess.an avaricious miser in 1835 |