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Acquisitive   Listen
adjective
Acquisitive  adj.  
1.
Acquired. (Obs.) "He died not in his acquisitive, but in his native soil."
2.
Able or disposed to make acquisitions; acquiring; as, an acquisitive person or disposition.





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"Acquisitive" Quotes from Famous Books



... armfuls, they somewhat ease the contact of the rheumatic with the rocks, upon which they must often sit on such occasions. They provide the young folks with a motive to seek something further in the woods, and give the acquisitive ladies who "press things" much loot to take ...
— The Garden, You, and I • Mabel Osgood Wright
... debating in his mind whether he should not go down and post up the daily record of his impressions which he kept for his home-staying sister. But the cigars of Colonel Cochrane and of Cecil Brown were still twinkling in the far corner of the deck, and the student was acquisitive in the search of information. He did not quite know how to lead up to the matter, but the Colonel very ...
— A Desert Drama - Being The Tragedy Of The "Korosko" • A. Conan Doyle
... forgotten her. She had meantime married another man, and was now a widow. In 1730 he married her. Meantime, entering into the printing business on his own account, he often trundled his paper along the streets in a wheelbarrow, and was intensely occupied with his affairs. His acquisitive mind was never idle, and in 1732 he began the publication of the celebrated "Poor Richard's Almanac." This was among the most successful of all American publications, was continued for twenty-five years, and in the last issue, in 1757, he collected the principal matter of all preceding numbers, and ...
— Steam Steel and Electricity • James W. Steele


Words linked to "Acquisitive" :   avaricious, acquisitiveness, covetous, predatory, grasping, grabby, unacquisitive, prehensile, accumulative, ravening


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