Thesaurus: grasping

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1. a. Seizing; embracing; catching.
2. a. Avaricious; greedy of gain; covetous; close; miserly; as, he is a grasping man.
3. adj. immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth
4. n. understanding with difficulty
5. n. the act of gripping something firmly with the hands (or the tentacles)
6. 1. Seizing; embracing; catching. 2. Avaricious; greedy of gain; covetous; close; miserly; as, he is a grasping man. -- Grasp"ing*ly, adv. -- Grasp"ing*ness, n.
7. j:100 n. understanding with difficulty n. the act of gripping something firmly with the hands (or the tentacles)