Definition for Acquire:

• ak-kw[= i]r', v.t. to gain: to attain to.-- n. ACQUIRABIL'ITY.-- adj. ACQUIR'ABLE, that may be acquired.-- ns. ACQUIRE'MENT, something learned or got by effort, rather than a gift of nature; ACQUISI'TION, the act of acquiring: that which is acquired.-- adj. ACQUIS'ITIVE, desirous to acquire.-- n. ACQUIS'ITIVENESS, propensity to acquire-- one of the phrenologists' so-called faculties, with its special organ. [ O. Fr. aquerre-- L. acquir[) e]re, - quisitum-- ad, to, and quær[) e]re, to seek.]

Synonyms for Acquire:

• n.

  •
  • retrain.
  •
  • place,
  • snap up,
  • import.
  •
  • climb,
  • bankrupt,
  • disestablish,
  • come out,
  • beggar,
  • ascent,
  • descend,
  • come by,
  • comedown.
  •
  • invade,
  • come down with,
  • form,
  • go down with,
  • afflict.
  •acquire (noun)
  • assume,
  • get,
  • produce,
  • grow,
  • adopt,
  • take on,
  • take,
  • develop.

• v.

  •acquire (verb)
  • land,
  • win,
  • incur,
  • lure,
  • garner,
  • corner,
  • fetch,
  • purchase,
  • net,
  • secure,
  • score,
  • buy,
  • wrangle,
  • obtain,
  • palm,
  • assume,
  • retrieve,
  • claim,
  • heap.
  •add (verb)
  • attain,
  • add,
  • accumulate,
  • accrue,
  • aggregate,
  • increase,
  • sum,
  • augment,
  • total,
  • tally,
  • increment.
  •body (verb)
  • produce,
  • develop,
  • grow,
  • get.
  •obtain or receive (verb)
  • get,
  • gain,
  • latch onto,
  • hustle,
  • catch,
  • snag,
  • grab,
  • lock up,
  • corral,
  • annex,
  • gather,
  • take,
  • attain,
  • win,
  • secure,
  • promote,
  • wangle,
  • achieve,
  • cop,
  • procure,
  • land,
  • buy,
  • collect,
  • earn,
  • access,
  • take possession of,
  • bring in,
  • get hands on,
  • amass,
  • have,
  • get hold of,
  • scare up,
  • rack up.
  •possess (verb)
  • possess,
  • have,
  • own,
  • hold.
  •possession (verb)
  • get.
  •receive (verb)
  • eat,
  • accept,
  • gulp,
  • pocket,
  • engorge,
  • devour,
  • gobble,
  • ingest,
  • inhale,
  • inspire,
  • absorb,
  • receive,
  • admit,
  • assimilate,
  • access.
  •take (verb)
  • confiscate,
  • catch,
  • annex,
  • usurp,
  • amass,
  • abduct,
  • appropriate,
  • get,
  • bag,
  • nab,
  • deprive,
  • levy,
  • procure,
  • harvest,
  • monopolize,
  • take,
  • collect,
  • gather,
  • capture,
  • grab,
  • commandeer,
  • reap,
  • impound.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • glean,
  • slum,
  • overstock,
  • pauperize,
  • comedown,
  • reversal,
  • disestablish,
  • former,
  • sicken,
  • downfall,
  • downshift,
  • retrain,
  • unlearn,
  • gentrification,
  • come out,
  • sometime,
  • beggar,
  • inherit,
  • deepen,
  • snap up.
  •
  • impoverish,
  • ruin,
  • import,
  • world,
  • ascent.
  •
  • mobile,
  • polish,
  • come into.
  •
  • place,
  • upgrade,
  • book.
  •bag
  • shoot.
  •borrow
  • steal.
  •bring in
  • sell.
  •collect
  • dig up.
  •contract
  • succumb to,
  • go down with,
  • become infected with,
  • be afflicted with.
  •get
  • wangle,
  • lay hands on.
  •get at
  • get hold of.
  •inherit
  • be bequeathed,
  • be left,
  • come into.
  •possess
  • take possession.
  •receive
  • be given.
  •stash
  • stash.
  •succeed
  • carry off.
  •take
  • take hold of,
  • lay hold of,
  • take.
  •Other relevant words:
  • carry off,
  • chartered,
  • pickup,
  • work out,
  • contract for,
  • bear the palm,
  • correct,
  • lend,
  • draw from,
  • grapple,
  • approbate,
  • lay in,
  • succeed to,
  • let,
  • claw,
  • guide,
  • simulate,
  • adopt,
  • hug,
  • be published,
  • derive,
  • drain,
  • induce,
  • regain,
  • mimic,
  • pick,
  • annexe,
  • squirrel,
  • preempt,
  • consume,
  • sweep up,
  • subscribe,
  • raise,
  • unlearn,
  • spread,
  • dig up,
  • lead,
  • come into,
  • clap hands on,
  • develop,
  • go the rounds,
  • detached,
  • play,
  • flummox,
  • moor,
  • correspondence,
  • fill,
  • sustain,
  • place,
  • deduce,
  • reach,
  • pre-empt,
  • set,
  • take hold of,
  • fall heir to,
  • come out,
  • restore,
  • overrun,
  • succeed,
  • descend,
  • former,
  • agreeable,
  • mobile,
  • strike,
  • hustle,
  • beget,
  • overstock,
  • draw,
  • prosper,
  • arrive,
  • rent,
  • undergo,
  • grow,
  • stimulate,
  • draw off,
  • hear,
  • bring upon,
  • scram,
  • suffer,
  • unity,
  • necessitate,
  • import,
  • disestablish,
  • contract,
  • get about,
  • feathery,
  • originate,
  • possession,
  • glean,
  • become infected with,
  • catch up,
  • succumb to,
  • remove,
  • lay hands on,
  • cumulate,
  • carry out,
  • repeat,
  • consonance,
  • take-in,
  • track down,
  • mature,
  • set about,
  • stick,
  • break loose,
  • clear,
  • pull down,
  • form,
  • HIT,
  • need,
  • undertake,
  • sign,
  • direct,
  • gain,
  • baffle,
  • due,
  • become acquainted with,
  • read,
  • irritate,
  • economize,
  • don,
  • bring out,
  • ask,
  • dumbfound,
  • modernize,
  • take on,
  • bewilder,
  • look,
  • keep,
  • Procuration,
  • snag,
  • possess oneself of,
  • proud,
  • uncover,
  • fitting,
  • reversal,
  • bear,
  • bring,
  • see,
  • cause,
  • grip,
  • downfall,
  • maturate,
  • clasp,
  • eligible,
  • pay for,
  • sicken,
  • finger,
  • bring down,
  • upgrade,
  • make one's way,
  • right,
  • master,
  • bring forth,
  • acceptance,
  • aim,
  • disdainful,
  • postulate,
  • accomplish,
  • welcome,
  • get hold of,
  • agreement,
  • Superinduce,
  • film,
  • lead the way,
  • realize,
  • conquer,
  • betroth,
  • encounter,
  • get word,
  • commence,
  • pay off,
  • decorous,
  • adhere to,
  • engage,
  • slum,
  • memorize,
  • make progress,
  • gravel,
  • get into,
  • subscribe to,
  • congruity,
  • receipt,
  • start,
  • fall ill with,
  • come down with,
  • draw out,
  • withdraw,
  • put on,
  • turn,
  • shoot,
  • loot,
  • cop,
  • ruin,
  • legitimate,
  • excite,
  • lofty,
  • clench,
  • climb,
  • grasp,
  • clinch,
  • find,
  • proper,
  • grab hold of,
  • fix,
  • pauperize,
  • mother,
  • get wind,
  • benefit,
  • formulate,
  • generate,
  • partake,
  • assemble,
  • bring in,
  • sack,
  • break,
  • bring on,
  • take aim,
  • exact,
  • watch,
  • lay hold of,
  • give rise,
  • apposite,
  • quicken,
  • thrive,
  • decent,
  • learn,
  • scare up,
  • come,
  • settlement,
  • got to,
  • discover,
  • repair,
  • latch onto,
  • involve,
  • get hands on,
  • employ,
  • inherit,
  • triumph,
  • impoverish,
  • go about,
  • stash,
  • fly about,
  • evolve,
  • spread like wildfire,
  • recrudesce,
  • see the light,
  • play first fiddle,
  • steal,
  • pull-in,
  • DO,
  • explicate,
  • be given,
  • mystify,
  • return,
  • perplex,
  • coincidence,
  • father,
  • accede to,
  • winnow,
  • glitter,
  • live,
  • Suscitate,
  • harmony,
  • rise,
  • pillage,
  • snap up,
  • deepen,
  • speed,
  • happen,
  • drive,
  • train,
  • fall into,
  • gain knowledge,
  • infer,
  • accordance,
  • extract,
  • arrest,
  • nip,
  • modernise,
  • be left,
  • suffer from,
  • lease,
  • nail,
  • occupy,
  • draw down,
  • cache,
  • require,
  • invade,
  • ascertain,
  • repossess,
  • ascent,
  • apt,
  • beat,
  • instruct,
  • cull,
  • borrow,
  • farm,
  • look at,
  • take over,
  • beggar,
  • presume,
  • sometime,
  • covenant,
  • clearing,
  • recover,
  • dramatise,
  • be able to,
  • escape,
  • wear,
  • civilise,
  • arrogant,
  • make grow,
  • deal,
  • memorise,
  • larn,
  • sell,
  • get rid of,
  • gentrification,
  • take to,
  • carry away,
  • educate,
  • educe,
  • pose,
  • concord,
  • acquiescence,
  • turn to account,
  • get knowledge,
  • sham,
  • haughty,
  • invite,
  • convey,
  • afflict,
  • snatch,
  • comedown,
  • start out,
  • obtain knowledge,
  • civilize,
  • begin,
  • gross,
  • make,
  • have to,
  • get at,
  • be bequeathed,
  • get a line,
  • fall in with,
  • wangle,
  • prepare,
  • espouse,
  • come in for,
  • run,
  • submit,
  • good,
  • conformity,
  • pack,
  • rack up,
  • deliver oneself from,
  • bankrupt,
  • be stricken with,
  • derive from,
  • detect,
  • suitable,
  • feathered,
  • fledged,
  • advance,
  • go forth,
  • call for,
  • teach,
  • follow,
  • demand,
  • flaunt,
  • downshift,
  • use up,
  • buzz off,
  • come by,
  • stupefy,
  • flourish,
  • lock up,
  • earn,
  • come over,
  • amaze,
  • sire,
  • consistency,
  • make profit,
  • elicit,
  • become,
  • arise,
  • charter,
  • teeth,
  • desirable,
  • vex,
  • polish,
  • observe,
  • get on,
  • peace,
  • choose,
  • maintain,
  • hire,
  • line,
  • seize,
  • promote,
  • pay back,
  • retrain,
  • book,
  • contain,
  • unearth,
  • requisition,
  • approbation,
  • glom on to,
  • tackle,
  • arrogate,
  • take air,
  • produce,
  • conduct,
  • carry,
  • con,
  • use,
  • consider,
  • take possession of,
  • be afflicted with,
  • go down with,
  • amity,
  • procurement,
  • bring about,
  • embrace,
  • realise,
  • experience,
  • take for granted,
  • compass,
  • chalk up,
  • drag down,
  • achieve,
  • take possession,
  • world,
  • check,
  • feign,
  • take by storm,
  • puzzle,
  • cling to,
  • bugger off,
  • create,
  • whip up,
  • dramatize,
  • determine,
  • go,
  • set out,
  • expropriate,
  • complacent,
  • select,
  • uprise,
  • pick out,
  • gripe,
  • clutch,
  • study,
  • nonplus,
  • corral,
  • germinate,
  • bear the bell,
  • ought to,
  • board game,
  • meet,
  • locate,
  • take precedence,
  • strike oil,
  • isolated,
  • spring up,
  • retain,
  • cultivate,
  • be responsible for,
  • profit,
  • engender.

Antonyms for Acquire:

• v.

  • obtain or receive
    lose, throw away, let go, miss, give, forfeit, forgo, relinquish, misunderstand, surrender, spend, divide, yield, pass, release, disperse, scatter, fail, give up.
  • Other antonyms:
    hand over, accord, junk, slough, abandon, dump, shuck, discard, forsake, relinquish, give up, forfeit, unload, grant, let go, jettison, shed, throw out, pay, reject, throw away, fail, cast, miss, part, fling, surrender, yield, desert, scrap, ditch.

Homophones for Acquire:

• agree, accoucheur, ash-gray, acquirer, azure, agora, ashir, asura, acre, assure, assyria, agar, accessary, asker, asarh, augur, acorea, aggro, ashore, ashur, aesir, accrue, ash gray, agra, assessor, achira, asur, ajar, assur, accra, Asa Gray, ass-kisser, augury, ash-grey, acer, ash grey, accuser, aegir, Azeri, assayer, accessory, auger.

Hypernym for Acquire:

• v.

  • body
    regrow, feather, stock, work up, spring, pupate, sprout, stool, teethe, tiller, cut, get up, leaf, pod, fledge.
  • possession
    extract, charter, find, borrow, win, accept, make, come by, lease, come up, benefit, luck into, repossess, gain, capture, gather up, glom, receive, pick up, purchase, profit, acquire, come upon, catch, earn, preempt, partake, get, partake in, press out, take in, win back, engage, pull in, get back, rent, express, collect, recoup, reclaim, realise, enter upon, bring in, recuperate, turn, call for, obtain, hire, come into, recover, take, realize, poll, line up, retrieve, isolate, garner, have, get hold, buy, share, inherit, clear, regain.

Hyponym for Acquire:

• v.

  • body
    change.
  • stative
    situate, locate.