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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Grasping \Grasp"ing\, adjective
1. Seizing; embracing; catching.
2. Avaricious; greedy of gain; covetous; close; miserly; as, he is a grasping man. -- {Grasp"ing*ly}, adverb -- {Grasp"ing*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
grasping
adjective: 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}]
noun
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 Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
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