'Grasping' definitions:
Definition of 'grasping'
(from WordNet)
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, grasping, greedy, prehensile]
noun
Understanding with difficulty; "the lecture was beyond his most strenuous graspings"
noun
The act of gripping something firmly with the hands (or the tentacles) [syn: grasping, taking hold, seizing, prehension]
Definition of 'Grasping'
From: GCIDE
- 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]