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Word Meanings - ACQUISITIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Acquired. He died not in his acquisitive, but in his native soil. Wotton. 2. Able or disposed to make acquisitions; acquiring; as, an acquisitive person or disposition.

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  • GRASP
    1. To seize and hold by clasping or embracing with the fingers or arms; to catch to take possession of. Thy hand is made to grasp a palmer's staff. Shak. 2. To lay hold of with the mind; to become thoroughly acquainted or conversant with;
  • ACQUISITIVE
    1. Acquired. He died not in his acquisitive, but in his native soil. Wotton. 2. Able or disposed to make acquisitions; acquiring; as, an acquisitive person or disposition.
  • GREEDY-GUT
    A glutton. Todd.
  • AVARICIOUS
    Actuated by avarice; greedy of gain; immoderately desirous of accumulating property. Syn. -- Greedy; stingy; rapacious; griping; sordid; close. -- Avaricious, Covetous, Parsimonious, Penurious, Miserly, Niggardly. The avaricious eagerly grasp after
  • RAPACIOUS
    1. Given to plunder; disposed or accustomed to seize by violence; seizing by force. " The downfall of the rapacious and licentious Knights Templar." Motley. 2. Accustomed to seize food; subsisting on prey, or animals seized by violence,; as, a
  • GRASPER
    One who grasps or seizes; one who catches or holds.
  • COVETOUSLY
    In a covetous manner.
  • COVETOUS
    1. Very desirous; eager to obtain; -- used in a good sense. Covetous of wisdom and fair virtue. Shak. Covetous death bereaved us all, To aggrandize one funeral. Emerson. 2. Inordinately desirous; excessively eager to obtain and possess
  • COVETOUSNESS
    1. Strong desire. When workmen strive to do better than well, They do confound their skill in covetousness. Shak. 2. A strong or inordinate desire of obtaining and possessing some supposed good; excessive desire for riches or money; -- in a bad
  • GRASPING
    1. Seizing; embracing; catching. 2. Avaricious; greedy of gain; covetous; close; miserly; as, he is a grasping man. -- Grasp"ing*ly, adv. -- Grasp"ing*ness, n.
  • GRASPLESS
    Without a grasp; relaxed. From my graspless hand Drop friendship's precious pearls. Coleridge.
  • GRASPABLE
    Capable of being grasped.
  • ACQUISITIVENESS
    The faculty to which the phrenologists attribute the desire of acquiring and possessing. Combe. (more info) 1. The quality of being acquisitive; propensity to acquire property; desire of possession.
  • ACQUISITIVELY
    In the way of acquisition.
  • GREEDY
    gredi, AS. grdig, grdig; akin to D. gretig, OS. grdag, OHG. grtag, Dan. graadig, OSw. gradig, grdig, Icel. graugr, Goth. grdags greedy, 1. Having a keen appetite for food or drink; ravenous; voracious; very hungry; -- followed by of; as, a lion
  • OVERGREEDY
    Excessively greedy.
  • ENGRASP
    To grasp; to grip. Spenser.

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