grasping
Meaning of grasping
adjective
- avaricious; greedy.
they were regarded as grasping landlords
- seize and hold firmly.
she grasped the bottle
Edward grasped her by the wrist
late Middle English: perhaps related to grope.
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Hyphenation of grasping
grasp-ing
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- grasping is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
grasping synonyms
Meaning avaricious:
avaricious, covetous, grabby, greedy, prehensile
Meaning taking hold:
Meaning excessively interested in acquiring money or material things:
Meaning aggressively greedy or grasping:
Meaning grasp or seize suddenly and roughly:
Meaning relating to or characterized by usury; extortionate:
Meaning showing or motivated by susceptibility to bribery; corrupt:
Meaning primarily concerned with making money at the expense of ethics:
Meaning excessively concerned with material possessions; money-oriented:
Meaning of or characteristic of a miser:
Meaning very unwilling to spend money or use resources:
Meaning be thrifty or parsimonious; economize:
Meaning a large board in a public place, used to display advertisements:
Meaning (of a person, action, or motive) lacking consideration for other people; concerned chiefly with one's own personal profit or pleasure:
Meaning showing an unwillingness to share one's possessions:
Meaning only a short distance away or apart in space or time:
Meaning intend to convey or refer to (a particular thing); signify:
Meaning (in tennis and other racket sports) denoting a stroke played with the palm of the hand facing in the direction of the stroke; forehand:
Meaning fixed, fastened, or closed firmly; hard to move, undo, or open:
Meaning mean; ungenerous:
Meaning miserly:
Meaning feeling or showing the need for food:
Meaning take and keep a firm hold of; grasp tightly:
Meaning grasp (something) tightly:
Meaning grasp (something) tightly with one's hand:
Meaning grasp, carry, or support with one's hands:
Meaning grasp (something) tightly and firmly:
Meaning intercept and hold (something which has been thrown, propelled, or dropped):
Meaning take hold of suddenly and forcibly:
Meaning quickly seize (something) in a rude or eager way:
Meaning seize hold of (someone):
grasping antonyms
Meaning showing a readiness to give more of something, especially money, than is strictly necessary or expected:
Meaning showing a disinterested and selfless concern for the well-being of others; unselfish:
Meaning allow or enable to escape from confinement; set free:
Anagrams of grasping
Words that rhyme with grasping
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