grasping

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grasping Definition

• (n) understanding with difficulty; "the lecture was beyond his most strenuous graspings"
• (n) the act of gripping something firmly with the hands
• (s) 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 greed

grasping Synonyms

• avaricious
• covetous
• grabby
• grasping
• greedy
• prehensile
• prehension
• seizing
• taking hold