grasping

Speech parts

1. grasping - Noun

2. grasping - Adjective

3. grasping - Verb

4. grasping - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Seizing; embracing; catching.

Avaricious; greedy of gain; covetous; close; miserly; as, he is a grasping man.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

seizing greedy avaricious prehensile covetous prehension grabby taking hold close taking mean holding seeing tight grip
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Antonyms

beneficent free liberal prodigal giving excessive
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Hypernyms

control understanding apprehension discernment savvy

Hyponyms

hold grip grasp clutch clasp clench

Phrases with the word

two-grasping least grasping more grasping less grasping grasping organ grasping miser

Anagrams

sparging spriggan

Examples

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. Aesop

The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master. Henry James

This child, who is grasping the stone, facing the tank, is it not the greatest message to the world when that hero becomes a martyr? We are proud of them. Yasser Arafat

A judgment, for me is not the mere grasping of a thought, but the admission of its truth. Gottlob Frege

All species capable of grasping this fact manage better in the struggle for existence than those which rely upon their own strength alone: the wolf, which hunts in a pack, has a greater chance of survival than the lion, which hunts alone. Christian Lous Lange

OPPORTUNITY, n. A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment. Ambrose Bierce

Close letter words and terms

graspable grasper graspful grasping organ graspingly graspingness