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Definition: Acquisitive |
AcquisitiveAdjective1. Eager to acquire and possess things especially material possessions or ideas; "an acquisitive mind"; "an aquisitive society in which the craving for material things seems never satisfied". 2. Tending to acquire and retain ideas or information; "an acquisitive mind". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "acquisitive" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1880. (references) |
Note: Acquisitive \Ac*quis"i*tive\, adjective. 1. Acquired. [Obsolete]. (references) |
Synonym: AcquisitiveSynonym: recollective (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: unacquisitive (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Greed | Adjective: greedy, avaricious, covetous, acquisitive, grasping; rapacious; lickerish. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Acquisitive |
| English words defined with "acquisitive": recollective ♦ unacquisitive. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "acquisitive": JIMMY. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | An acquisitive reformer. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Acquisitive" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Acquisitive" is used about 67 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 67 | 40,952 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "acquisitive": acquisitive instinct ♦ acquisitive nature. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
acquisitive | 8 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "acquisitive"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | gretig (avid, eager, eager for, greedy), belus (eager, greedy), begerig (eager, greedy). (various references) | |
Albanian | trofeje, rekrut (conscript, draftee, inductee, recruit, trainee). (various references) | |
Arabic | مولع بالإكتساب, إكتسابي. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | користолюбив (mercenary, venal), възприемчив (capacious, clearheaded, impressionable, open minded, receptive, recipient, susceptible, susceptive, tractable), алчен (accumulative, avid, covetous, eager, gloating, grasping, having, miserly, moneygrubbing, rapacious, sordid). (various references) | |
Chinese | 贪婪 (Acquisitiveness, Avarice, Covetous, grabby, greed, greedy, rapacious). (various references) | |
Czech | zištný (mercenary, venal), shánèivý. (various references) | |
Dutch | verlekkerd (eager, greedy), hebzuchtig (avaricious, greedy, miserly, stingy), hebberig (greedy), happig (avid, eager, greedy), gretig (avid, eager, greedy), belust (avid, eager, greedy), begerig (avid, eager, greedy). (various references) | |
Faeroese | grammur (eager, greedy). (various references) | |
Farsi | فراگیرنده (Comprehensive, Pervasive), جوینده (Hunter), اکتسابی , اکتساب کننده . (various references) | |
Finnish | ahne (eager, greedy). (various references) | |
French | avide. (various references) | |
German | habgierig (avaricious, eager, grasping, graspingly, greedily, greedy, possessive, rapacious). (various references) | |
Greek | κτητικός, φιλόκτημων, άπληστοσ (avid, cormorant, covetous, greedy, insatiable, rapacious, voracious), άπληστος (greedy, rapacious, voracious). (various references) | |
Hungarian | nyereségvágyó (eager for gain). (various references) | |
Indonesian | tamak (avarice, grasping, greedy, rapacious). (various references) | |
Italian | bramoso (avid, covetous, eager, greedy, hungry, longing, lustful, wishful, yearning), avido (athirst, avid, covetous, eager, grasping, greedy, hungry, thirsty, voracious). (various references) | |
Manx | sayntagh (avaricious, covetous, grasping, hungry as eye; too deep, hungry; too deep, lustful), feddynagh (beneficiary, finder, inventive, inventor, locating), cosnee (gainful). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | acquisitiveay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | ávido (appropriative, athirst, avid, eager, edacious, greedy, jejune, lickerish, rapacious, ravenous, wishful, wistful). (various references) | |
Romanian | asiduu (assiduous, assiduously, sedulous, tough), acaparator (absorbing, accumulator, buyer-up, covetous, engrossing, food hoarder, forestalling, grabber, grasping, greedy, money making, money-grabbing, monopolizer, predatory), strângãtor (accumulative, collector, economical, gatherer, parsimonious, provident, sparing, stretcher), receptiv (alive, apprehensive, nimble, open minded, perceptively, pervious, receptive, recipe). (various references) | |
Russian | восприимчивый (adoptive, hospitable, impressible, impressionable, mentally alert, open minded, perceptive, perceptual, receptive, recipient, sensitive). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | sklon sticanju, gramziv (covetous, rapacious). (various references) | |
Spanish | codicioso (avaricious, covetous, eager, greedy, mammonish), ávido (appetent, athirst, avid, covetous, eager, greedy, lickerish, rapacious). (various references) | |
Swedish | förvärvslysten. (various references) | |
Turkish | açgözlü (avid, covetous, esurient, grabber, grasping, greedy, hoggish, insatiable, open mouthed, piggish, piglike, rapacious, ravenous, voracious, vulturine, vulturous, wolfish), paragöz (avaricious, mercenary, miser, money grubber, stingy), para delisi. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сприйнятливий (adoptive, alive, apprehensive, apt, cataleptic, facile, open minded, perceptive, pervious, receptive, recipient, sensitive, susceptive), що прагне здобути, жадібний (avaricious, avid, covetous, edacious, esurient, grasping, greedy, open mouthed, piggish, rapacious). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | thích trữ của, hám lợi có thể học hỏi, có khả năng tiếp thu, có khả năng lĩnh hội. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "acquisitive": acquisitively, acquisitiveness, acquisitivenesses. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "acquisitive": nonacquisitive. (additional references) | |
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"Acquisitive" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acqiusitive, aquisitive. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "acquisitive" (pronounced ukwi"zutiv) |
| 8 | -k w i" z u t i v | inquisitive. |
| 5 | -z u t i v | accusative, causative, dispositive, positive. |
| 4 | -u t i v | additive, affirmative, alliterative, alternative, anticompetitive, argumentative, cognitive, commemorative, communicative, comparative, competitive, consecutive, conservative, consultative, contemplative, cumulative, curative, decorative, definitive, degenerative, demonstrative, derivative, diminutive, duplicative, evocative, executive, expletive, exploitative, Federative, figurative, fixative, formative, fugitive, generative, hypersensitive, illustrative, imaginative, imperative, indicative, infinitive, informative, initiative, inoperative, insensitive, interpretive, intuitive, laxative, lucrative, narrative, negative, neoconservative, noncompetitive, noncumulative, nonexecutive, normative, nutritive, operative, palliative, participative, pejorative, prerogative, preservative, preventative, primitive, prohibitive, provocative, punitive, putative, recuperative, relative, remunerative, rep, repetitive, representative, restorative, secretive, sedative, sensitive, speculative, superlative, talkative, tentative, ultraconservative, uncompetitive, uncooperative, unimaginative, uninformative, unrepresentative, vituperative. |
| 3 | -t i v | accommodative, abortive, accumulative, active, adaptive, addictive, adjective, administrative, adoptive, affective, appointive, appreciative, assaultive, assertive, attentive, attractive, authoritative, automotive, captive, collaborative, collective, combative, conductive, congestive, connective, constructive, contraceptive, cooperative, corrective, corruptive, counterproductive, creative, deceptive, defective, deliberative, descriptive, destructive, detective, digestive, dilutive, directive, disincentive, disparages, disruptive, dissipative, distinctive, distributive, effective, elective, elucidative, eruptive, exhaustive, exploitive, facultative, festive, furtive, hyperactive, imitative, inactive, inattentive, incentive, ineffective, infective, injunctive, innovative, instinctive, instructive, interactive, introspective, invective, inventive, investigative, irrespective, iterative, legislative, locomotive, manipulative, meditative, motive, native, nonautomotive, nonnative, nonproductive, objective, obstructive, octave, overactive, perceptive, perspective, photoconductive, plaintive, predictive, preemptive, presumptive, preventive, proactive, probative, productive, prognosticative, projective, prospective, protective, qualitative, quantitative, radioactive, reactive, receptive, reconstructive, redemptive, redistributive, reflective, refractive, regulative, rehabilitative, reproductive, respective, restive, restrictive, retroactive, retrospective, seductive, selective, stimulative, subjective, substantive, suggestive, superconductive, supportive, unattractive, unproductive, unreceptive, vegetative, vindictive. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-i-i-q-s-t-u-v" | |
-2 letters: vacuities. | |
-3 letters: acuities, cavities. | |
-4 letters: acquest, acquits, actives, caiques, qiviuts, uveitic, uveitis. | |
-5 letters: acquit, active, acutes, caique, casque, cavies, cities, civets, civies, cuesta, cuties, evicts, iciest, qiviut, quiets, sacque, vesica, viatic. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-i-i-q-s-t-u-v" | |
+2 letters: acquisitively. | |
+3 letters: equivocalities, nonacquisitive. | |
+4 letters: acquisitiveness. | |
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