grasping

grasping has 5 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 8.

Definitions

• a.. Seizing; embracing; catching.
• a.. Avaricious; greedy of gain; covetous; close; miserly; as, he is a grasping man.
• n.. the act of gripping something firmly with the hands (or the tentacles)
• n.. understanding with difficulty; "the lecture was beyond his most strenuous graspings"
• a.. 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"