Helen Fenton

Acquisitive: Definition and part of speech

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Acquisitive

  1. a. Able or disposed to make acquisitions; acquiring; as, an acquisitive person or disposition.
  2. a. Acquired.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Acquisitiveness: Definition and part of speech

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Acquisitiveness

  1. n. The faculty to which the phrenologists attribute the desire of acquiring and possessing.
  2. n. The quality of being acquisitive; propensity to acquire property; desire of possession.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Acotyledonous: Definition and part of speech

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Acotyledonous

  1. a. Having no seed lobes, as the dodder; also applied to plants which have no true seeds, as ferns, mosses, etc.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Acoustic: Definition and part of speech

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Acoustic

  1. n. A medicine or agent to assist hearing.
  2. a. Pertaining to the sense of hearing, the organs of hearing, or the science of sounds; auditory.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.