grasping as a noun: - 1
- 2
as an adjective: - 1
grasping
noun
1 grasping
Understanding with difficulty.
Roget 817a:
covetousness,
ravenousness
etc.
adj.;
venality,
avidity,
cupidity;
acquisitiveness
(acquisition)
775;
desire
etc.
865.
[greed for money or material things]
greed,
greediness,
avarice,
avidity,
rapacity,
extortion.
selfishness
etc.
943;
auri sacra fames [Lat.].
grasping,
craving,
canine appetite,
rapacity.
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2 grasping
adjective
1 grasping
Immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth:
— A grasping old miser.
— Grasping commercialism.
synonyms: avaricious, covetous, grabby, greedy, prehensile.
Roget 817a:
greedy,
avaricious,
covetous,
acquisitive,
grasping;
rapacious;
lickerish†.
greedy as a hog;
overeager;
voracious;
ravenous,
ravenous as a wolf;
openmouthed,
extortionate,
exacting,
sordid†,
alieni appetens [Lat.];
insatiable,
insatiate;
unquenchable,
quenchless;
omnivorous.
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Polish: chciwy, zachłanny, pazerny
Moby thesaurus: 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 ... show more.
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