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prehensile


adjective
1. adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object
- a monkey's prehensile tail
Ant:
nonprehensile
2. having a keen intellect
- "poets--those gifted strangely prehensile men"- A.T.Quiller-Couch
Similar to:
intelligent
3. 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
Syn:
avaricious, covetous, grabby, grasping, greedy
Similar to:
acquisitive
Derivationally related forms:
greed (for: greedy), greediness (for: greedy), grasping (for: grasping), covetousness (for: covetous), avarice (for: avaricious), avariciousness (for: avaricious)

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