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grasping(noun)

understanding with difficulty

"the lecture was beyond his most strenuous graspings"

grasping, taking hold, seizing, prehension(adj)

the act of gripping something firmly with the hands (or the tentacles)

avaricious, covetous, grabby, grasping, greedy, prehensile(adj)

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"

having or marked by an eager and often selfish desire especially for material possessions

a grasping person who would rather buy a car he didn't need than give a dime to charity

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