grasping
adjective
- 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
noun
- 1
the act of gripping something firmly with the hands (or the tentacles)
- 2
understanding with difficulty
the lecture was beyond his most strenuous graspings
Also useful for “grasping”:Unscrambler— Rearrange the letters in “grasping”