grasping

Adjective

• 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
    

Noun

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

• understanding with difficulty
  • the lecture was beyond his most strenuous graspings
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  avaricious , covetous , grabby , greedy , prehensile , taking hold , seizing , prehension