Home › Words › Q › questuaryquestuary/ˈkwɛstjʊəɹi/questuary · adj — acquisitive; greedy.Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).questuary is pronounced /ˈkwɛstjʊəɹi/.EtymologyFrom Latin quaestuārius.adjAcquisitive; greedy.e.g.“Although lapidaries and questuary enquirers affirm it, yet the writers of minerals, and natural speculators, conceive that stones which bear this name to be a mineral concretion.” — 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:nounOne employed to collect profits.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.acquisitory 81% match — Acquisitive; able or disposed to make acquisitions. vs questuary →acquisitive 76% match — Acquired. vs questuary →acquisitively 75% match — In an acquisitive manner; for the purpose of acquisition. vs questuary →acquisitiveness 74% match — The quality of being acquisitive; propensity to acquire property; desire of possession. vs questuary →inquisitive 74% match — Eager to acquire knowledge; acquisitive. vs questuary →acquisititious 73% match — Of the nature or character of an acquisition; acquired, as opposed to innate. vs questuary →acquisitor 71% match — One who acquires. vs questuary →covetive 69% match — Tending to covet; acquisitive. vs questuary →