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grasping 音标拼音: [gr'æspɪŋ] a. 抓的,握的,贪婪的 抓的,握的,贪婪的 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" [ synonym: { 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) [ synonym: { grasping}, { taking hold}, { seizing}, { prehension}] 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] 147 Moby Thesaurus words for " grasping": a hog for, acquiring, acquisitive, acquisitiveness, all- devouring, all- engulfing, ambitious for self, autistic, avarice, avaricious, avariciousness, avid, avidity, avidness, bloodsucking, bottomless, careerist, clamant, clamorous, clinging, coveting, covetous, covetousness, crying, cupidity, demanding, desirous, devouring, draining, egotistical, esurient, exacting, exigent, exorbitant, extortionate, frenzy of desire, fury of desire, gluttonous, gluttony, gobbling, grabby, graspingness, greed, greediness, greedy, gripping, hoggish, hoggishness, holding, importunate, incontinence, individualistic, inordinate desire, insatiability, insatiable, insatiable desire, insatiate, insistent, instant, intemperateness, itching palm, itchy, keeping, limitless, loud, lupine, lust, mean, mercenary, miserly, money- hungry, money- mad, narcissistic, niggardly, omnivorous, overgreediness, overgreedy, parasitic, parsimonious, penny- pinching, penurious, persistent, personalistic, pertinacious, piggish, piggishness, possessive, predacious, predatory, prehensile, pressing, privatistic, quenchless, rapacious, rapaciousness, rapacity, raptorial, ravening, ravenous, ravenousness, remote, retentive, self- absorbed, self- admiring, self- advancing, self- besot, self- centered, self- considerative, self- contained, self- devoted, self- esteeming, self- indulgent, self- interested, self- jealous, self- occupied, self- pleasing, self- seeking, self- serving, self- sufficient, selfish, sharkish, slakeless, sordid, sordidness, stingy, swinish, swinishness, taxing, tenacious, tight, tight- fisted, unappeasable, unappeased, unquenchable, unsated, unsatisfied, unslakeable, unslaked, urgent, venal, voracious, voraciousness, voracity, vulturine, vulturous, wolfish, wolfishness
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