prehensile

  • (a) adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object
    • a monkey's prehensile tail
  • (s) having a keen intellect
    • "poets--those gifted strangely prehensile men"- A.T.Quiller-Couch
  • (s) 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
    avaricious, grabby, grasping, greedy, covetous,

Synonyms

avaricious grabby grasping greedy covetous

Antonyms

nonprehensile

Words of close approximity

prehension