What is "grasping" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does grasping mean in English? Meaning of grasping definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "grasping" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "grasping": understanding with difficulty

Noun

  • Meaning: understanding with difficulty
  • Example: the lecture was beyond his most strenuous graspings
  • Synonyms: grasping
  • Hypernyms: apprehension discernment savvy understanding
  • Meaning of "grasping": immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth

    Adjective

  • Meaning: immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth
  • Example: they are avaricious and will do anything for money casting covetous eyes on his neighbor's fields a grasping old miser grasping commercialism greedy for money and power grew richer and greedier prehensile employers stingy with raises for their employees
  • Synonyms: avaricious covetous grabby grasping greedy prehensile
  • Similar: acquisitive
  • Meaning of "grasping": the act of gripping something firmly with the hands (or the tentacles)

    Noun

  • Meaning: the act of gripping something firmly with the hands (or the tentacles)
  • Synonyms: grasping prehension seizing taking hold
  • Hyponyms: clasp clench clutch clutches grasp grip hold
  • Hypernyms: control
  • Adjective: Greedy, eager for wealth. 1990, Robert Fagles (translator), The Iliad: Just how, Agamemnon, great field marshal . . . most grasping man alive, how can the generous Argives give you prizes now? I know of no troves of treasure, piled, lying idle, anywhere.1990, Robert Fagles (translator), The Iliad: Just how, Agamemnon, great field marshal . . . most grasping man alive, how can the generous Argives give you prizes now? I know of no troves of treasure, piled, lying idle, anywhere.
  • Synonyms:

    penny-pinching, mean, acquisitive, avaricious, avid, covetous, desirous, extortionate, itchy, miserly, penurious, rapacious, selfish, stingy, tightfisted, venal, close-fisted, grabby, extorting, niggardly, prehensile, usurious,

    Antonyms:

    unselfish, generous,

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