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

Antonyms for Acquire:

• Other antonyms:

  • n. t.
    abandon, accord, desert, discard, disperse, ditch, divide, drop, dump, fail, fling, fling off, forfeit, forgo, forsake, give up, grant, jettison, junk, let go, miss, misunderstand, part, part with, pass, pay, reject, release, relinquish, renounce, resell, scatter, scrap, sell, shed, shuck, slough, surrender, throw away, throw out, waive, shuck off, be deprived of, fling away.

• 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.