grasping English

Meaning grasping meaning

What does grasping mean?

grasping

— noun understanding with difficulty the lecture was beyond his most strenuous graspings

— noun the act of gripping something firmly with the hands (or the tentacles)

— adjective (= avaricious, covetous, greedy, prehensile) 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

Synonyms grasping synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as grasping?

grasping English » English

greedy

avaricious

selfish

seizing

rapacious

covetous

voracious

holding

avid

taking hold

grabby

winning over

ravenous

prehension

prehensile

piggish

taking

seizure

predatory

laying hold

insatiable

comprehension

appreciation

acquisitive

wolfish

wicked

vulturous

transmission

too-saving

tenacity

tenacious

stingy

snatching

roughshod

retentive

restraining

realization

realisation

ravishing

ravening

raptorial

predacious

predaceous

perverse

penurious

parsimonious

overbearing

overambitious

over-thirsty

over-economical

Topics grasping topics

What do people use grasping to talk about?

Language and thought Want Decide, plan

Lust

• What words refer to lusting for something?
  desire lust avarice burn covet crave grasping greed inflamed

Work and occupation Finance Accumulate wealth

Greedy

• What words refer to wanting more money?
  greedy greed grasping materialistic