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graspingadjective having or marked by an eager and often selfish desire especially for material possessionsa grasping person who would rather buy a car he didn't need than give a dime to charity acquisitive, avaricious, avid, coveting, covetous, grabby, greedy, mercenary, moneygrubbing, rapacious commercialistic, materialistic, philistinedesirous, eager, itchy, lickerish, miserlyhoggish, piggish, piggy, swinishdevouring, gluttonous, gobbling, insatiable, ravenous, unquenchable, voraciousegocentric, egoistic(also egoistical), egotistic(or egotistical), self-centered, self-seekingdiscontent, discontented, malcontent, unsatisfiedbegrudging, grudging, resentful nonmaterialisticaltruistic, bounteous, bountiful, charitable, freehanded, generous, greathearted, handsome, liberal, magnanimous, munificent, openhanded, openhearted, selfless, unselfish, unsparingcontrolled, moderate, restrained, temperatecontent, sated, satisfied to have a practical understanding ofhe just doesn't grasp how important it is that he call when he'll be late comprehending, knowing, understanding appreciating, apprehending, cognizing, fathoming, following, kenning(chiefly Scottish), perceiving, savvyinghaving, possessingcatching on (to), picking up misapprehending, misconceiving, misinterpreting, misknowing, misperceiving, misunderstanding to put one's arms around and press tightlythe departing soldier grasped his children a little closer than usual bear-hugging, clasping, crushing, embracing, enclasping, enfolding, hugging, straining clamping, clinging, cradling, grabbing, gripping, holdingbosoming, embosoming, encircling, entwining, enveloping, enwindingfolding, locking, twining, wrappingcuddling, fondling, nestling, nuzzling, patting, petting, snuggling, stroking to reach for and take hold of by embracing with the fingers or armsthe attendant grasped my arm and steered me towards the door clasping, gripping, holding, taking clenching, clinging (to), clutching, holding on (to)catching, nabbing, seizing, snatching hanging on to, laying hold of discharging, dropping, freeing, liberating, releasingdelivering, entrusting(also intrusting), giving, handing, handing over, passing, relinquishing, transferring, transmitting, turning over, unhanding to have a clear idea ofthe emergency operator finally grasped what he was trying to tell her appreciating, apprehending, assimilating, beholding, catching, catching on (to), cognizing, compassing, comprehending, conceiving, cottoning (to or on to), deciphering, decoding, digging, discerning, getting, grokking, intuiting, knowing, making, making out, perceiving, recognizing, registering, savvying, seeing, seizing, sensing, tumbling (to), twigging, understanding absorbing, digesting, taking inrealizingfathoming, penetrating, piercing picking up on missing misapprehending, misconceiving, misconstruing, misinterpreting, misperceiving, misreading, mistaking, misunderstanding adj.covetous, greedy, acquisitive, grasping, avaricious mean having or showing a strong desire for especially material possessions.covetous implies inordinate desire often for another's possessions.covetous of his brother's country estate greedy stresses lack of restraint and often of discrimination in desire.greedy for status symbols acquisitive implies both eagerness to possess and ability to acquire and keep.an eagerly acquisitive mind grasping adds to covetous and greedy an implication of selfishness and often suggests unfair or ruthless means.a hard grasping trader who cheated the natives avaricious implies obsessive acquisitiveness especially of money and strongly suggests stinginess.an avaricious miser in 1710 |