Grasping - definition, pronunciation, transcription
Amer.
|ˈɡræspɪŋ|
Brit.
|ˈɡrɑːspɪŋ|
noun
- understanding with difficulty
the lecture was beyond his most strenuous graspings
- the act of gripping something firmly with the hands (or the tentacles) (syn: prehension, seizing)adjective
- immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth (syn: avaricious, covetous, greedy, prehensile)
a grasping old miser
grasping commercialism
grasping commercialism
Extra examples
Her grasping children fought over her property when she died.
...a grasping person who would rather buy a car he didn't need than give a dime to charity...
Hanson was a hard, grasping man.
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