acquisitive Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective eager to acquire and possess things especially material possessions or ideas
    • an acquisitive mind
    • an acquisitive society in which the craving for material things seems never satisfied

WordNet

Ac*quis"i*tive adjective
Definitions
  1. Acquired. Obs.
    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.

Webster 1913