unacquisitive

Definitions of unacquisitive
  1. adjective
    not acquisitive; not interested in acquiring or owning anything
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    antonyms:
    acquisitive
    eager to acquire and possess things especially material possessions or ideas
    accumulative
    marked by acquiring or amassing
    avaricious, covetous, grabby, grasping, greedy, prehensile
    immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth
    possessive
    desirous of owning
    plundering
    given to taking by force what is desired
    predaceous, predacious, predatory
    living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain
    rapacious, ravening, voracious
    excessively greedy and grasping
    sordid
    meanly avaricious and mercenary
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