Synonyms of the word

grasping

• adj. Greedy, eager for wealth.
• v. present participle of grasp.
• n. The act of one who grasps or covets.

acquisitive

• adj. (obsolete) Acquired.
• adj. Able or disposed to make acquisitions; acquiring.
• adj. Dispositioned toward acquiring and retaining information.

apprehension

• n. (rare) The physical act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure.
• n. (law) The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest.
• n. The act of grasping with the intellect; the contemplation of things, without affirming, denying, or passing…
• n. Opinion; conception; sentiment; idea.
• n. The faculty by which ideas are conceived or by which perceptions are grasped; understanding.
• n. Anticipation, mostly of things unfavorable; dread or fear at the prospect of some future ill.

avaricious

• adj. Actuated by avarice; extremely greedy for wealth or material gain; immoderately desirous of accumulating…

control

• v. (transitive) To exercise influence over; to suggest or dictate the behavior of.
• v. (transitive, statistics) (construed with for) To design (an experiment) so that the effects of one or…
• n. (countable, uncountable) Influence or authority over something.
• n. A separate group or subject in an experiment against which the results are compared where the primary…
• n. The method and means of governing the performance of any apparatus, machine or system, such as a lever,…
• n. Restraint or ability to contain one's movements or emotions, or self-control.
• n. A security mechanism, policy, or procedure that can counter system attack, reduce risks, and resolve vulnerabilities;…
• n. (project management) A means of monitoring for, and triggering intervention in, activities that are not…
• n. A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register.
• n. (graphical user interface) An interface element that a computer user interacts with, such as a window…
• n. (climatology) Any of the physical factors determining the climate of a place, such as latitude, distribution…
• n. (linguistics) A construction in which the understood subject of a given predicate is determined by an…

covetous

• adj. Inordinately desirous; excessively eager to obtain and possess (especially money); avaricious.

discernment

• n. The ability to distinguish; judgement.
• n. Discrimination.
• n. The ability to distinguish between things.
• n. The ability to perceive differences that exist.
• n. The condition of understanding.
• n. Aesthetic discrimination; taste, appreciation.
• n. Perceptiveness.
• n. The ability to make wise judgements; sagacity.
• n. Discretion in judging objectively.

grabby

• adj. Tending to grab, especially rudely or greedily.

greedy

• adj. Having greed; consumed by selfish desires.
• adj. Prone to overeat.
• adj. (regular expressions) Tending to match as much text as possible.
• adj. (computer science, of an algorithm) That tries to find the global optimum by finding the local optimum…

prehensile

• adj. (zoology) Able to take hold of and clasp objects; adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an…

prehension

• n. the act of grasping or gripping something, especially with the hands.

savvy

• adj. (informal) Shrewd, well-informed and perceptive.
• v. (informal) To understand.
• interj. (informal) Do you understand?
• n. Shrewdness.

seizing

• v. present participle of seize.
• n. A type of lashing or binding by a small cord.
• adj. That seizes the attention; impressive.

understanding

• n. (uncountable) Mental, sometimes emotional process of comprehension, assimilation of knowledge, which is…
• n. (countable) Reason or intelligence, ability to grasp the full meaning of knowledge, ability to infer.
• n. (countable) Opinion, judgement or outlook.
• n. (countable) An informal contract; mutual agreement.
• n. (countable) A reconciliation of differences.
• n. (uncountable) Sympathy.
• n. All that people individually sense and feel of themselves.
• adj. Showing compassion.
• v. present participle of understand.