prehensile

prehensile is a 10-letter English word with 4 senses as noun and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Adapted to seize or grasp; seizing; grasping; as, the prehensile tail of a monkey. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

10 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 17 · 4 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Adapted to seize or grasp; seizing; grasping; as, the prehensile tail of a monkey.
2. 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"

   Synonyms: avaricious, covetous, grabby, grasping, greedy

3. adjective. adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object

   "a monkey's prehensile tail"

4. adjective. having a keen intellect- A.T.Quiller-Couch

   "poets--those gifted strangely prehensile men"

Synonyms

avaricious, covetous, grabby, grasping, greedy

Words from these letters

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