grasping

3 definitions found

grasping - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Grasping \Grasp"ing\, a.
     1. Seizing; embracing; catching.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Avaricious; greedy of gain; covetous; close; miserly; as,
        he is a grasping man. -- Grasp"ing*ly, adv. --
        Grasp"ing*ness, n.
        [1913 Webster]

grasping - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  grasping
      adj 1: 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, grasping, 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 (or the
         tentacles) [syn: grasping, taking hold, seizing,
         prehension]

grasping - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  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