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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]
Grasping \Grasp"ing\, a. 1. Seizing; embracing; catching. [1913 Webster] 2. Avaricious; greedy of gain; covetous; close; miserly; as, he is a grasping man. -- Grasp"ing*ly, adv. -- Grasp"ing*ness, n. [1913 Webster]From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]
Grasping \Grasp"ing\, a. 1. Seizing; embracing; catching. 2. Avaricious; greedy of gain; covetous; close; miserly; as, he is a grasping man. -- Grasp"ing*ly, adv. -- Grasp"ing*ness, n.From WordNet (r) 2.0 : [ wn ]
grasping adj : immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth; "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" [syn: avaricious, covetous, grabby, greedy, prehensile] n 1: understanding with difficulty; "the lecture was beyond his most strenuous graspings" 2: the act of gripping something firmly with the hands [syn: taking hold, seizing, prehension]From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
grasping a. greedy, eager for wealth. n. The act of one who grasps or covets. vb. (en-ing form of: grasp)From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]
grasping a. greedy, eager for wealth. n. The act of one who grasps or covets. vb. (en-ing form of: grasp)From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]
grasping a. greedy, eager for wealth. n. The act of one who grasps or covets. vb. (en-ing form of: grasp)From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]
grasping a. greedy, eager for wealth. n. The act of one who grasps or covets. vb. (en-ing form of: grasp)From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
grasping Englanti a. ahneFrom Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
grasping Engelska a. (avledning en grasp ordform=prespart) Engelska vb. (böjning en verb grasp)From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 : [ freedict:eng-ara ]
Grasping /ɡɹˈaspɪŋ/ الإدراكFrom English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:eng-bul ]
grasping //ˈɡɹæspɪŋ// //ˈɡɹɑːspɪŋ//From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]алчен, ненаситен greedy, eager for wealth
grasping /ɡɹˈaspɪŋ/From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]uchopení
grasping /ɡɹˈaspɪŋ/ ErgreifenFrom English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ], Packen Synonyms: prehension, seizing
grasping /ɡɹˈaspɪŋ/ ergreifen und festhaltend, gepackt haltend, umfassend, umklammern Synonym: gripping see: grip sb./sth., grasp sb./sth., gripped, grasped, grip sb. by the throat, grasp sb. in your armsFrom English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]
grasping /ɡɹˈaspɪŋ/ ergreifend, packend, fassend see: grasp sth., grasped, he/she grasps, I/he/she would grasp, grasp the nettle of sth., grasp at nothingFrom English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]
grasping /ɡɹˈaspɪŋ/ gierig, habgierig, habsüchtig [veraltet] , raffgierig [veraltet] Note: Person, begehrlich, begierigFrom English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]Note: Gefühlsregung Synonyms: greedy, grabby, avaricious, covetous see: driven by money, money-hungry, cash-hungry
grasping /ɡɹˈaspɪŋ/ ramschend Synonym: buying cheap see: buy cheap, grasp, bought cheap, graspedFrom English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]
grasping /ɡɹˈaspɪŋ/ strebend see: grasp at sth., graspedFrom English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]
grasping /ɡɹˈaspɪŋ/ verstehend, erfassend see: grasp, graspedFrom English - Modern Greek XDXF/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.1.1 : [ freedict:eng-ell ]
grasping /ɡɹˈaspɪŋ/ κερδομανήςFrom English-Hindi FreeDict Dictionary ver. 1.6 : [ freedict:eng-hin ]
grasping /ɡɹˈaspɪŋ/From English-Hungarian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 : [ freedict:eng-hun ]1. लोभी
grasping /ɡɹˈaspɪŋ/ 1. vmibe fogódzkodó 2. vmibe kapaszkodó 3. vmit fogó 4. kapzsi 5. vmit markoló 6. mohóFrom English - Polish Piotrowski+Saloni/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.2 : [ freedict:eng-pol ]
grasping /ˈgrɑ:spɪŋ/From English-Turkish FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 : [ freedict:eng-tur ]zachłanny
grasping /ɡɹˈaspɪŋ/ 1. haris, tamahkâr, aç gözlü.From IPA:en_US : [ IPA:en_US ]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 : [ moby-thesaurus ]/ˈɡɹæspɪŋ/
147 Moby Thesaurus words for "grasping": a hog for, acquiring, acquisitive, acquisitiveness, all-devouring, all-engulfing, ambitious for self, autistic, avarice, avaricious, avariciousness, avid, avidity, avidness, bloodsucking, bottomless, careerist, clamant, clamorous, clinging, coveting, covetous, covetousness, crying, cupidity, demanding, desirous, devouring, draining, egotistical, esurient, exacting, exigent, exorbitant, extortionate, frenzy of desire, fury of desire, gluttonous, gluttony, gobbling, grabby, graspingness, greed, greediness, greedy, gripping, hoggish, hoggishness, holding, importunate, incontinence, individualistic, inordinate desire, insatiability, insatiable, insatiable desire, insatiate, insistent, instant, intemperateness, itching palm, itchy, keeping, limitless, loud, lupine, lust, mean, mercenary, miserly, money-hungry, money-mad, narcissistic, niggardly, omnivorous, overgreediness, overgreedy, parasitic, parsimonious, penny-pinching, penurious, persistent, personalistic, pertinacious, piggish, piggishness, possessive, predacious, predatory, prehensile, pressing, privatistic, quenchless, rapacious, rapaciousness, rapacity, raptorial, ravening, ravenous, ravenousness, remote, retentive, self-absorbed, self-admiring, self-advancing, self-besot, self-centered, self-considerative, self-contained, self-devoted, self-esteeming, self-indulgent, self-interested, self-jealous, self-occupied, self-pleasing, self-seeking, self-serving, self-sufficient, selfish, sharkish, slakeless, sordid, sordidness, stingy, swinish, swinishness, taxing, tenacious, tight, tight-fisted, unappeasable, unappeased, unquenchable, unsated, unsatisfied, unslakeable, unslaked, urgent, venal, voracious, voraciousness, voracity, vulturine, vulturous, wolfish, wolfishnessFrom Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary : [ stardic ]
a. 抓的,握的,贪婪的;From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary : [ xdict ]
a. 抓的,握的,贪婪的