that is acquired; acquired; [but improper.]
Word of the Day: Catachrestical
1. Acquired.
2. Able or disposed to make acquisitions; acquiring; as, an acquisitive person or disposition.
Noting acquirement, with to or for following.
In the way of acquisition.
1. The quality of being acquisitive; propensity to acquire property; desire of possession.
2. The faculty to which the phrenologists attribute the desire of acquiring and possessing.
Greed Roget’s Thesaurus §817a
N. covetousness, ravenousness &c. # adj, venality, avidity, cupidity, acquisitiveness (acquisition) 775, desire, greed, greediness, avarice, avidity, rapacity, extortion, selfishness, auri sacra fames, grasping, craving, canine appetite, rapacity
Adj. greedy, avaricious, covetous, acquisitive, grasping, rapacious, lickerish, greedy as a hog, overeager, voracious, ravenous, ravenous as a wolf, openmouthed, extortionate, exacting, sordid|, alieni appetens, insatiable, insatiate, unquenchable, quenchless, omnivorous
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