Grabby

2 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  grabby
       adj : 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}, {grasping}, {greedy}, {prehensile}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  57 Moby Thesaurus words for "grabby":
     a hog for, acquiring, acquisitive, all-devouring, all-engulfing,
     avaricious, avid, bloodsucking, bottomless, coveting, covetous,
     desirous, devouring, esurient, extortionate, gluttonous, gobbling,
     grasping, greedy, hoggish, insatiable, insatiate, itchy, limitless,
     lupine, mercenary, miserly, money-hungry, money-mad, omnivorous,
     overgreedy, parasitic, piggish, predacious, predatory, prehensile,
     quenchless, rapacious, raptorial, ravening, ravenous, sharkish,
     slakeless, sordid, swinish, unappeasable, unappeased, unquenchable,
     unsated, unsatisfied, unslakeable, unslaked, venal, voracious,
     vulturine, vulturous, wolfish