Antonyms of adj unacquisitive

1 sense of unacquisitive

Sense 1
unacquisitive (vs. acquisitive) -- (not acquisitive; not interested in acquiring or owning anything)

acquisitive (vs. unacquisitive) -- (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")
        => accumulative -- (marked by acquiring or amassing; "we live in an accumulative society")
        => avaricious, covetous, grabby, grasping, greedy, prehensile -- (immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth; "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")
        => possessive -- (desirous of owning; "small children are so possessive they will not let others play with their toys")
        => plundering -- (given to taking by force what is desired)
        => predaceous, predacious, predatory -- (living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain; "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)
        => rapacious, ravening, voracious -- (excessively greedy and grasping; "a rapacious divorcee on the prowl"; "ravening creditors"; "paying taxes to voracious governments")
        => sordid -- (meanly avaricious and mercenary; "sordid avarice"; "sordid material interests")

Similarity of adj unacquisitive

1 sense of unacquisitive

Sense 1
unacquisitive (vs. acquisitive) -- (not acquisitive; not interested in acquiring or owning anything)

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