Synonyms for grasping
ˈgræs pɪŋ, ˈgrɑs-grasp·ing

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1. graspingnoun

   understanding with difficulty

   "the lecture was beyond his most strenuous graspings"

   Synonyms:
   prehension, seizing, taking hold

   Antonyms:
   unacquisitive

2. grasping, taking hold, seizing, prehensionadjective

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

   Synonyms:
   prehension, seizing, taking hold

   Antonyms:
   unacquisitive

3. avaricious, covetous, grabby, grasping, greedy, prehensileadjective

   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"

   Synonyms:
   devouring(a), avid, grabby, esurient, greedy, avaricious, covetous, envious, jealous, prehensile

   Antonyms:
   unacquisitive

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1. graspingadjective

   Synonyms:
   avaricious, covetous, miserly, niggardly, penurious, parsimonious, close, stingy, mean, sordid, close-fisted, with an itching palm

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1. graspingadjective

   Synonyms:
   avaricious, sordid, covetous, niggardly, greedy

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1. List of paraphrases for "grasping":

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1. Robert Saleh:

   He’s got a really good early command of the offense, and he’s doing a really good job in regards to that, there’s little things that he’s doing where you’re seeing a little more security. He’s not a rookie, so he’s being a little more vocal. He looks good. He’s getting more comfortable, obviously grasping the offense. He’s never had trouble grasping the offense, but he was a rookie, so he goes through it. He’s much further ahead at this point than he was a year ago, for sure.

2. Aesop:

   Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

3. Byron Donalds:

   He was grasping at straws and throwing out populist talking points, but there still was no facts or real information behind it, in the chamber, his delivery was frankly awful, and the imagery was not good.

4. Albert Einstein:

   The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books - a mysterious order which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects.

5. Dominik Siegrist:

   Lots of smaller ones are grasping at straws, trying to survive as long as they can because the valleys depend on this tourism.