All prehensile synonyms
pre·hen·sile
P p adj prehensile
- acquisitive — If you describe a person or an organization as acquisitive, you do not approve of them because you think they are too concerned with getting new possessions.
- grasping — greedy; avaricious: a sly, grasping man.
- in-satiable — not satiable; incapable of being satisfied or appeased: insatiable hunger for knowledge.
- desirous — If you are desirous of doing something or desirous of something, you want to do it very much or want it very much.
- greedy — excessively or inordinately desirous of wealth, profit, etc.; avaricious: the greedy owners of the company.
- insatiate — insatiable: insatiate greed.
- covetous — A covetous person has a strong desire to possess something, especially something that belongs to another person.
adjective prehensile
- craving — an intense desire or longing
- gormandizing — Present participle of gormandize.
- niggardly — reluctant to give or spend; stingy; miserly.
- guzzling — South Midland and Southern U.S. gozzle.
- esurient — Hungry or greedy.
- gulping — Present participle of gulp.
- extorting — Present participle of extort.
- gobbling — Present participle of gobble.
- yearning — deep longing, especially when accompanied by tenderness or sadness: a widower's yearning for his wife.
- grabbing — Present participle of grab.
- hogging — a hoofed mammal of the family Suidae, order Artiodactyla, comprising boars and swine.