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acquired
| Main Entry: |
acquired
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | gained by personal exertion |
| Synonyms: | accomplished, attained, captured, collected, earned, gained, gathered, learned, obtained, reached, realized, secured, seized, won |
| Main Entry: | acquire |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | obtain or receive |
| Synonyms: | access, achieve, amass, annex, attain, bring in, buy, catch, collect, cop, corral*, earn, gain, gather, get, get hands on, get hold of, grab, have, hustle, land, latch onto, lock up, pick up, procure, promote, rack up, scare up, secure, snag*, take, take possession of, wangle, win |
| Notes: | a person or thing is the subject of (acquire) the acquiring process; a person or thing is the object or goal of (accrue) the accruing process |
| Antonyms: | fail, forfeit, forgo, lose, relinquish, surrender, yield |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | derivative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | borrowed, transmitted from source |
| Synonyms: | acquired, ancestral, caused, cognate, coming from, connate, copied, evolved, hereditary, imitative, inferential, inferred, not original, obtained, plagiaristic, plagiarized, procured, rehashed, secondary, secondhand, subordinate, uninventive, unoriginal |
| Antonyms: | inventive, original, unborrowed, unique |
| Main Entry: | extrinsic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | foreign |
| Synonyms: | acquired, alien, exotic, exterior, external, extraneous, gained, imported, outer, outside, outward, superficial |
| Antonyms: | essential, integral, interior, intrinsic, necessary |
| Main Entry: | bought |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | purchased |
| Synonyms: | acquired, contracted for, paid for, procured |
| Antonyms: | given away, pawned, sold |
| Main Entry: | realized |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | earned |
| Synonyms: | accrued, acquired, cleared, gained, gathered, gotten, harvested, inherited, made, netted, obtained, profited, reaped, received, taken |
| Main Entry: | received |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | taken |
| Synonyms: | accepted, acknowledged, acquired, admitted, collected, conventional, customary, derived, earned, gathered, gotten, honored, obtained, standard |
| Antonyms: | delivered, disbursed, given, nonstandard |
| Main Entry: | accept |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | receive something given physically |
| Synonyms: | acquire, gain, get, obtain, secure, take, welcome |
| Notes: | accept is 'take or agree to' and except means 'exclude, leave out' |
| Antonyms: | deny, discard, refuse, reject |
| Main Entry: | accumulate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | gather or amass something |
| Synonyms: | accrue, acquire, add to, agglomerate, aggregate, amalgamate, assemble, bring together, cache, clean up, collect, collocate, compile, concentrate, cumulate, draw together, expand, gain, gather, grow, heap, heap together, hoard, incorporate, increase, load up, lump*, make a bundle, make a killing, mass, pile up, pile*, procure, profit, rack up, roll up, round up, scare up, stack up, stockpile, store, store up, swell, unite |
| Antonyms: | disperse, dissipate, dwindle, lessen, lose, spend, squander, waste |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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