Grasping \Grasp"ing\, a.
1. Seizing; embracing; catching.
[1913 Webster]
2. Avaricious; greedy of gain; covetous; close; miserly; as,
he is a grasping man. --
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
grasping
adj : immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth; "they are
avaricious and will do anything for money"; "casting
covetous eyes on his neighbor's fields"; "a grasping
old miser"; "grasping commercialism"; "greedy for money
and power"; "grew richer and greedier"; "prehensile
employers stingy with raises for their employees" [syn:
avaricious, covetous, grabby, greedy, prehensile]
n 1: understanding with difficulty; "the lecture was beyond his
most strenuous graspings"
2: the act of gripping something firmly with the hands [syn: taking
hold, seizing, prehension]
WordNet (r) 2.0
147 Moby Thesaurus words for "grasping":
a hog for, acquiring, acquisitive, acquisitiveness, all-devouring,
all-engulfing, ambitious for self, autistic, avarice, avaricious,
avariciousness, avid, avidity, avidness, bloodsucking, bottomless,
careerist, clamant, clamorous, clinging, coveting, covetous,
covetousness, crying, cupidity, demanding, desirous, devouring,
draining, egotistical, esurient, exacting, exigent, exorbitant,
extortionate, frenzy of desire, fury of desire, gluttonous,
gluttony, gobbling, grabby, graspingness, greed, greediness,
greedy, gripping, hoggish, hoggishness, holding, importunate,
incontinence, individualistic, inordinate desire, insatiability,
insatiable, insatiable desire, insatiate, insistent, instant,
intemperateness, itching palm, itchy, keeping, limitless, loud,
lupine, lust, mean, mercenary, miserly, money-hungry, money-mad,
narcissistic, niggardly, omnivorous, overgreediness, overgreedy,
parasitic, parsimonious, penny-pinching, penurious, persistent,
personalistic, pertinacious, piggish, piggishness, possessive,
predacious, predatory, prehensile, pressing, privatistic,
quenchless, rapacious, rapaciousness, rapacity, raptorial,
ravening, ravenous, ravenousness, remote, retentive, self-absorbed,
self-admiring, self-advancing, self-besot, self-centered,
self-considerative, self-contained, self-devoted, self-esteeming,
self-indulgent, self-interested, self-jealous, self-occupied,
self-pleasing, self-seeking, self-serving, self-sufficient,
selfish, sharkish, slakeless, sordid, sordidness, stingy, swinish,
swinishness, taxing, tenacious, tight, tight-fisted, unappeasable,
unappeased, unquenchable, unsated, unsatisfied, unslakeable,
unslaked, urgent, venal, voracious, voraciousness, voracity,
vulturine, vulturous, wolfish, wolfishness
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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