grasping 音標拼音: [gr'æspɪŋ]
a . 抓的,握的,貪婪的
抓的,握的,貪婪的
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 " [
synonym :
{
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 ) [
synonym : {
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
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