acquisitive
Always seeking possessions
Acquisitive describes an eager desire to acquire and possess things, especially material wealth.
The word carries a slightly negative connotation, suggesting greed or excessive accumulation: an acquisitive collector who couldn't pass up any auction, acquisitive corporations buying up competitors.
Someone acquisitive isn't just interested in having things—they're driven to keep getting more.
Excessive desire for riches
- covetousnessExcessive desire for possessions
- rapacityAggressive, seizing greed
- insatiabilityInability to feel satisfied
- graspingGreedy for wealth
mercenary · avaricious · exploitation · profiteering · predatory · cupidity · mammon · plunder
Powerful urge to have
- longingIntense, persistent desire
- covetingDesiring what's another's
- yearningIntense prolonged craving
- appetiteDesire for food
hunger · eagerness · wanting · lusting · envying · covetous · desirous · itching
Legal right of possession
- propertySomething owned or inherent
- territorialDefensive about owned space
- clutchingHolding tightly onto
- holdingMaintaining physical possession
controlling · grasping · monopolizing · proprietary · retentive · clinging · hoarding · keeping
Preoccupation with acquiring goods
- wealthAbundance of valuable resources
- luxuryExpensive nonessential comfort
- shoppingAcquiring goods at retailers
- statusOne's relative position
affluence · opulence · brands · possessions · commodities · goods · retail · expenditure
Gathering in increasing quantity
- amassingCollecting in quantity
- gatheringCollection of people meeting
- stockpilingAccumulating supplies in quantity
- curatingOrganizing for presentation
archiving · cataloging · compiling · philately · numismatics · assembling · aggregating · hoarding
Ongoing contest between opponents
- dominanceSuperior influence over others
- conquestDefeating and seizing control
- outdoExceed in achievement
- surpassExceed in achievement
edge · advantage · outcompete · aggressive · cutthroat · winner-take-all · dog-eat-dog · ruthless
avarice
Excessive desire for riches
- covetousnessExcessive desire for possessions
- rapacityAggressive, seizing greed
- insatiabilityInability to feel satisfied
grasping · mercenary · avaricious · exploitation · profiteering · predatory · cupidity · mammon · plunder · usury
craving
Powerful urge to have
appetite · hunger · eagerness · wanting · lusting · envying · covetous · desirous · itching · hankering
ownership
Legal right of possession
- propertySomething owned or inherent
- territorialDefensive about owned space
- clutchingHolding tightly onto
holding · controlling · grasping · monopolizing · proprietary · retentive · clinging · hoarding · keeping · guarding
consumerism
Preoccupation with acquiring goods
- wealthAbundance of valuable resources
- luxuryExpensive nonessential comfort
- shoppingAcquiring goods at retailers
status · affluence · opulence · brands · possessions · commodities · goods · retail · expenditure · capitalism
accumulating
Gathering in increasing quantity
- amassingCollecting in quantity
- gatheringCollection of people meeting
- stockpilingAccumulating supplies in quantity
curating · archiving · cataloging · compiling · philately · numismatics · assembling · aggregating · hoarding · procuring
rivalry
Ongoing contest between opponents
- dominanceSuperior influence over others
- conquestDefeating and seizing control
- outdoExceed in achievement
surpass · edge · advantage · outcompete · aggressive · cutthroat · winner-take-all · dog-eat-dog · ruthless · ambitious
- money mindsetsfrugal, thrifty, generous, stingy, greedy
- selfish traitsselfish, greedy, self-centered, self-absorbed, egotistical
- business adjectivescommercial, corporate, economic, financial, fiscal
acquisitiveascetic
One who renounces indulgence
abstemious · spartan · minimalist · detached · unmaterialistic
acquisitivegenerous
Willing to give freely
magnanimous · munificent · bountiful · liberal · bounteous
- business acquisitionPurchasing controlling stake
- merger and acquisitionCorporate consolidation transaction
- second language acquisitionProcess of gaining non-native fluency
- land acquisitionGaining ownership of terrain
- language acquisitionDeveloping communication ability
- hostile acquisitionBuyout opposed by target