Word Meanings - GRASPING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of GRASPING)

• Covetous
• Acquisitive
• avaricious
• greedy
• grasping
• rapacious
• Rapacious
• Greedy
• ravenous
• voracious
• predaceous
• extortionate

Related words: (words related to GRASPING)

• RAVENOUS
  1. Devouring with rapacious eagerness; furiously voracious; hungry even to rage; as, a ravenous wolf or vulture. 2. Eager for prey or gratification; as, a ravenous appetite or desire. -- Rav"en*ous*ly, adv. -- Rav"en*ous*ness, n.
• GRASP
  1. To seize and hold by clasping or embracing with the fingers or arms; to catch to take possession of. Thy hand is made to grasp a palmer's staff. Shak. 2. To lay hold of with the mind; to become thoroughly acquainted or conversant with;
• ACQUISITIVE
  1. Acquired. He died not in his acquisitive, but in his native soil. Wotton. 2. Able or disposed to make acquisitions; acquiring; as, an acquisitive person or disposition.
• GREEDY-GUT
  A glutton. Todd.
• PREDACEOUS
  Living by prey; predatory. Derham.
• AVARICIOUS
  Actuated by avarice; greedy of gain; immoderately desirous of accumulating property. Syn. -- Greedy; stingy; rapacious; griping; sordid; close. -- Avaricious, Covetous, Parsimonious, Penurious, Miserly, Niggardly. The avaricious eagerly grasp after
• RAPACIOUS
  1. Given to plunder; disposed or accustomed to seize by violence; seizing by force. " The downfall of the rapacious and licentious Knights Templar." Motley. 2. Accustomed to seize food; subsisting on prey, or animals seized by violence,; as, a
• GRASPER
  One who grasps or seizes; one who catches or holds.
• COVETOUSLY
  In a covetous manner.
• COVETOUS
  1. Very desirous; eager to obtain; -- used in a good sense. Covetous of wisdom and fair virtue. Shak. Covetous death bereaved us all, To aggrandize one funeral. Emerson. 2. Inordinately desirous; excessively eager to obtain and possess
• COVETOUSNESS
  1. Strong desire. When workmen strive to do better than well, They do confound their skill in covetousness. Shak. 2. A strong or inordinate desire of obtaining and possessing some supposed good; excessive desire for riches or money; -- in a bad
• GRASPING
  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.
• GRASPLESS
  Without a grasp; relaxed. From my graspless hand Drop friendship's precious pearls. Coleridge.
• GRASPABLE
  Capable of being grasped.
• ACQUISITIVENESS
  The faculty to which the phrenologists attribute the desire of acquiring and possessing. Combe. (more info) 1. The quality of being acquisitive; propensity to acquire property; desire of possession.
• EXTORTIONATE
  Characterized by extortion; oppressive; hard.
• ACQUISITIVELY
  In the way of acquisition.
• GREEDY
  gredi, AS. grdig, grdig; akin to D. gretig, OS. grdag, OHG. grtag, Dan. graadig, OSw. gradig, grdig, Icel. graugr, Goth. grdags greedy, 1. Having a keen appetite for food or drink; ravenous; voracious; very hungry; -- followed by of; as, a lion
• VORACIOUS
  Greedy in eating; very hungry; eager to devour or swallow; ravenous; gluttonous; edacious; rapacious; as, a voracious man or appetite; a voracious gulf or whirlpool. Dampier. -- Vo*ra"cious*ly, adv. -- Vo*ra"cious*ness, n.
• OVERGREEDY
  Excessively greedy.
• ENGRASP
  To grasp; to grip. Spenser.
• INTRAVENOUS
  Within the veins.