1. grasping - Noun
2. grasping - Adjective
3. grasping - Verb
4. grasping - Adjective Satellite
Seizing; embracing; catching.
Avaricious; greedy of gain; covetous; close; miserly; as, he is a grasping man.
Source: Webster's dictionaryBeware 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