Synonyms: acquisitive
Definition: eager to acquire and possess things especially material possessions or ideas
Usage: an acquisitive mind; an acquisitive society in which the craving for material things seems never satisfied
Similar words: accumulative
Definition: marked by acquiring or amassing
Usage: we live in an accumulative society
Similar words: avaricious, covetous, grabby, grasping, greedy, prehensile
Definition: immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth
Usage: they are avaricious and will do anything for money; casting covetous eyes on his neighbor's fields; a grasping old miser; grasping commercialism; greedy for money and power; grew richer and greedier; prehensile employers stingy with raises for their employees
Similar words: possessive
Definition: desirous of owning
Usage: small children are so possessive they will not let others play with their toys
Similar words: plundering
Definition: given to taking by force what is desired
Similar words: predaceous, predacious, predatory
Definition: living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain
Usage: predatory capitalists; a predatory, insensate society in which innocence and decency can prove fatal- Peter S. Prescott; a predacious kind of animal--the early geological gangster- W.E.Swinton
Similar words: rapacious, ravening, voracious
Definition: excessively greedy and grasping
Usage: a rapacious divorcee on the prowl; ravening creditors; paying taxes to voracious governments
Similar words: sordid
Definition: meanly avaricious and mercenary
Usage: sordid avarice; sordid material interests