All grasping synonyms
grasp·ing
G g 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.