Associations to the word «Acquisitive»

Wiktionary

ACQUISITIVE, adjective. (obsolete) Acquired.
ACQUISITIVE, adjective. Able or disposed to make acquisitions; acquiring.
ACQUISITIVE, adjective. Dispositioned toward acquiring and retaining information.

Dictionary definition

ACQUISITIVE, 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".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats