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Ravenous vs Acquisitive - What's the difference?

ravenous | acquisitive |

As adjectives the difference between ravenous and acquisitive

is that ravenous is very hungry while acquisitive is acquired.

ravenous

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Very hungry.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
    • , chapter=5, title= A Cuckoo in the Nest , passage=The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. There is something humiliating about it.}}
  • (rfc-sense) Eager for prey or gratification.
  • * 1843 , (Thomas Carlyle), '', book 3, ch. IX, ''Working Aristocracy
    • Supply-and-demand? One begins to be weary of such work. Leave all to egoism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure, of applause: — it is the Gospel of Despair!

    Synonyms

    * starving (qualifier) * See also

    See also

    * voracious

    acquisitive

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Acquired.
  • Able or disposed to make acquisitions; acquiring.
    • He is an acquisitive person.
    She has an acquisitive nature.
  • Dispositioned toward acquiring and retaining information.

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