acquisitive

About 0.39 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Acquired.
2. adjective Able or disposed to make acquisitions; acquiring, greedy.

   He is an acquisitive person.

3. adjective Dispositioned toward acquiring and retaining information.

Similar words

retentive possessive accumulative recollective covetous avaricious grabby plundering prehensile greedy

Often followed by

society and instinct prescription instincts reorganization spirit reorganizations nature

Word family

acquisitively acquisitiveness acquisitivenesses