Synonyms and Antonyms of grasping
having or marked by an eager and often selfish desire especially for material possessions
- a grasping person who would rather buy a car he didn't need than give a dime to charity
commercialistic, materialistic, philistine
desirous, eager, itchy, lickerish, miserly
hoggish, piggish, piggy, swinish
devouring, gluttonous, gobbling, insatiable, ravenous, unquenchable, voracious
egocentric, egoistic (also egoistical), egotistic (or egotistical), self-centered, self-seeking
discontent, discontented, malcontent, unsatisfied
begrudging, grudging, resentful
nonmaterialistic
altruistic, bounteous, bountiful, charitable, freehanded, generous, greathearted, handsome, liberal, magnanimous, munificent, openhanded, openhearted, selfless, unselfish, unsparing
controlled, moderate, restrained, temperate
content, sated, satisfied
