grasping

Meanings

• understanding with difficulty;
• "the lecture was beyond his most strenuous graspings"
• the act of gripping something firmly with the hands (or the tentacles)
• hold firmly
• get the meaning of something;
• immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth;
• "a grasping old miser"
• "grasping commercialism"

Synonyms

• taking hold
• seizing
• prehension
• grasp
• hold on
• grok
• get the picture
• comprehend
• savvy
• dig
• compass
• apprehend
• avaricious
• covetous
• grabby
• greedy
• prehensile

Scrabble Score: 12

grasping is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word

grasping is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary

grasping is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 16

grasping is a valid Words With Friends word

Angrams of grasping