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acquisitive: 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"

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covetous collapse: showing extreme cupidity; painfully desirous of another's advantages; "he was never covetous before he met her"; "jealous of his success and covetous of his possessions"; "envious of their art collection"

self-centered collapse

prehensile collapse: adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object; "a monkey's prehensile tail"; having a keen intellect; "poets--those gifted strangely prehensile men"- A.T.Quiller-Couch

possessive collapse: desirous of owning; "small children are so possessive they will not let others play with their toys"; having or showing a desire to control or dominate; "a possessive parent"; serving to express or indicate possession; "possessive pronouns"; "the genitive endings"

money mad collapse

money hungry collapse

unslakeable collapse

unsated collapse: not having been satisfied

egotistic collapse: characteristic of those having an inflated idea of their own importance

egotistical collapse

hungry collapse: feeling hunger; feeling a need or desire to eat food; "a world full of hungry people"

grabby collapse

narcissistic collapse

gobbling collapse

selfish collapse: concerned chiefly or only with yourself and your advantage to the exclusion of others; "Selfish men were...trying to make capital for themselves out of the sacred cause of civil rights"- Maria Weston Chapman

unquenchable collapse

desirous collapse: having or expressing desire for something; "desirous of high office"; "desirous of finding a quick solution to the problem"

itchy collapse: causing an irritating cutaneous sensation; being affect with an itch; "he had an itchy toe from the mosquito bite"

unappeasable collapse

avaricious collapse: 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"

self-indulgent collapse: indulgent of your own appetites and desires; "a self-indulgent...way of looking at life"- Havelock Ellis

venal collapse

insatiable collapse

self-serving collapse: interested only in yourself

self-seeking collapse

rapacious collapse: excessively greedy and grasping; "a rapacious divorcee on the prowl"; "ravening creditors"; "paying taxes to voracious governments"

self-esteeming collapse

avid collapse: marked by active interest and enthusiasm; "an avid sports fan"; "a great walker"; "an eager beaver"; (often followed by `for') ardently or excessively desirous; "avid for adventure"; "an avid ambition to succeed"; "fierce devouring affection"; "the esurient eyes of an avid curiosity"; "greedy for fame"

piggish collapse

devouring collapse

hoggish collapse: resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy; "piggish table manners"; "the piggy fat-cheeked little boy and his porcine pot-bellied father"; "swinish slavering over food"

individualistic collapse: with minimally restricted freedom in commerce

ravenous collapse

mercenary collapse: a person hired to fight for another country than their own

omnivorous collapse: feeding on both plants and animals

voracious collapse

self-contained collapse: constituting a complete and independent unit in and of itself; "the university is like a self-contained city with shops and all amenities"

greedy collapse: wanting to eat or drink more than one can reasonably consume; "don't be greedy with the cookies"

self-sufficient collapse: able to provide for your own needs without help from others; "a self-sufficing economic unit"

miserly collapse

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