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All grasping synonyms

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adj grasping

  • penny-pinching — a miserly, niggardly, or stingy person.
  • mean — to intend for a particular purpose, destination, etc.: They were meant for each other. Synonyms: destine, foreordain.
  • prehensile — adapted for seizing, grasping, or taking hold of something: a prehensile tail.
  • usurious — practicing usury; charging illegal or exorbitant rates of interest for the use of money: a usurious moneylender.
  • acquisitive — If you describe a person or an organization as acquisitive, you do not approve of them because you think they are too concerned with getting new possessions.
  • avaricious — An avaricious person is very greedy for money or possessions.
  • avid — You use avid to describe someone who is very enthusiastic about something that they do.
  • covetous — A covetous person has a strong desire to possess something, especially something that belongs to another person.
  • desirous — If you are desirous of doing something or desirous of something, you want to do it very much or want it very much.
  • itchy — having or causing an itching sensation.
  • miserly — of, like, or befitting a miser; penurious; stingy; niggardly.
  • penurious — extremely stingy; parsimonious; miserly.
  • rapacious — given to seizing for plunder or the satisfaction of greed.
  • selfish — devoted to or caring only for oneself; concerned primarily with one's own interests, benefits, welfare, etc., regardless of others.
  • stingy — having a sting.
  • tightfisted — parsimonious; stingy; tight.
  • venal — willing to sell one's influence, especially in return for a bribe; open to bribery; mercenary: a venal judge.
  • close-fisted — very careful with money; mean
  • grabby — tending to grab or grasp for gain; greedy: a grabby ticket scalper.
  • niggardly — reluctant to give or spend; stingy; miserly.

adjective grasping

  • greedy — excessively or inordinately desirous of wealth, profit, etc.; avaricious: the greedy owners of the company.
  • extorting — Present participle of extort.
  • extortionate — (of a price) much too high; exorbitant.

noun grasping

  • capture — If you capture someone or something, you catch them, especially in a war.
  • getting — Present participle of get.
  • pinch — to squeeze or compress between the finger and thumb, the teeth, the jaws of an instrument, or the like.
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