1. (a.) Seizing; embracing; catching.

2. (a.) Avaricious; greedy of gain; covetous; close; miserly; as, he is a grasping man.

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 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