prehensile English

Meaning prehensile meaning

What does prehensile mean?

prehensile

— adjective having a keen intellect poets--those gifted strangely prehensile men — A.T.Quiller-Couch

— adjective adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object a monkey's prehensile tail

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

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

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greedy

grasping

grabby

covetous

avaricious

tenacious

strong

shrewd

savvy

ravenous

rapacious

percipient

perceptive

edacious