Word Information

Prehensile

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Definitions for Prehensile

adjective
adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object
Examples
  1. a monkey's prehensile tail
adjective
having a keen intellect
Examples
  1. poets--those gifted strangely prehensile men"- A.T.Quiller-Couch
adjective
immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth
Synonyms
Examples
  1. they are avaricious and will do anything for money
  2. casting covetous eyes on his neighbor's fields
  3. a grasping old miser
  4. grasping commercialism
  5. greedy for money and power
  6. grew richer and greedier
  7. prehensile employers stingy with raises for their employees

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