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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. understanding with difficulty;
- Example: "the lecture was beyond his most strenuous graspings"

2. the act of gripping something firmly with the hands (or the tentacles);
[syn: grasping, taking hold, seizing, prehension]


ADJECTIVE (1)

1. immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth;
- Example: "they are avaricious and will do anything for money"
- Example: "casting covetous eyes on his neighbor's fields"
- Example: "a grasping old miser"
- Example: "grasping commercialism"
- Example: "greedy for money and power"
- Example: "grew richer and greedier"
- Example: "prehensile employers stingy with raises for their employees"
[syn: avaricious, covetous, grabby, grasping, greedy, prehensile]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

grasping
    adj 1: 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]
    n 1: understanding with difficulty; "the lecture was beyond his
         most strenuous graspings"
    2: the act of gripping something firmly with the hands (or the
       tentacles) [syn: grasping, taking hold, seizing,
       prehension]