Acquisitive is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ACQUISITIVE in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• strongly desirous of acquiring and possessing
• excessively interested in acquiring money or material things
• Acquired.
• Able or disposed to make acquisitions; acquiring; as, an acquisitive person or disposition.
• eager to acquire and possess things especially material possessions or ideas

Words related to ACQUISITIVE

acquisitively30

Words that contain ACQUISITIVE

acquisitively30 nonacquisitive28 acquisitiveness29 acquisitivenesses31

How to use ACQUISITIVE in a sentence

• Greed, extravagance, envy, ambition, and rivalry are the roots of the acquisitive impulse, and contribute more to the public good than benevolence and the control of desire.
• It was very unlike the usual selfish, acquisitive love of a man for a maid.
• He was a youth of dreamy habits and acquisitive tastes, but sometimes made a good stew.
• There were those who held that the cloak might have been carried off by some acquisitive individual.
• His sociability was stronger than his acquisitive instinct.
• In minor ways he was acquisitive and consequently there came to be a public sentiment which excluded him from public employments.
• We were every one of us Yankee boys, acquisitive and resolved to make the most of ourselves and our small opportunities.
• He is always greedy, always acquisitive, always vile.
• Goochy has a strong acquisitive bias, and raises no objections to this vicarious proceeding.
• Equally important in the interest of creative work is the power of these appeals to shift the motive for production from the acquisitive to the creative impulse.
• 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.
• The shops gave her none of the acquisitive pleasure he had expected.
• They wondered, however, if I would be as far-sighted and acquisitive as he, if I would add to what I had or lose it.

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