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. Buddha:

   Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else you are the one who gets burned.

2. Roger Bacon:

   There are in fact four very significant stumblingblocks in the way of grasping the truth, which hinder every man however learned, and scarcely allow anyone to win a clear title to wisdom, namely, the example of weak and unworthy authority, longstanding custom, the feeling of the ignorant crowd, and the hiding of our own ignorance while making a display of our apparent knowledge.

3. Bethany Mandel:

   They see what happened in San Francisco this week and know that the way they have been conducting business is no longer viable, they are grasping at straws, and this is the straw they have decided to grasp. They are painting all opposition as fascist and terrorizing. Americans over the course of the last two years have caught on like never before to this tactic. It is going to backfire in a big way.

4. Danielle Weston:

   They are literally grasping at straws here to come up with something.

5. 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.