grasping

grasping
    adj 1: 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}, {grasping}, {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 (or the
       tentacles) [syn: {grasping}, {taking hold}, {seizing},
       {prehension}]
    

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]
    

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, wolfishness