Dictionary Entry
grasping
grasping is a 8-letter English word with 5 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Seizing; embracing; catching. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 16 · 5 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Seizing; embracing; catching.
- 2adjective
Avaricious; greedy of gain; covetous; close; miserly; as, he is a grasping man.
- 3noun
the act of gripping something firmly with the hands (or the tentacles)
Synonyms
- 4noun
understanding with difficulty
"the lecture was beyond his most strenuous graspings"
- 5adjective
immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth
"they are avaricious and will do anything for money"
"casting covetous eyes on his neighbor's fields"
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