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)
