Grasping vs Envious - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between grasping and envious

is that grasping is greedy, eager for wealth while envious is feeling or exhibiting envy; jealously desiring the excellence or good fortune of another; maliciously grudging.

As a verb grasping

is present participle of lang=en.

As a noun grasping

is the act of one who grasps or covets.

grasping

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Greedy, eager for wealth.

* 1990 , (Robert Fagles) (translator), The Iliad :

Just how, Agamemnon, great field marshal . . . most grasping man alive, how can the generous Argives give you prizes now? I know of no troves of treasure, piled, lying idle, anywhere.

Derived terms

* graspingly * graspingness

Synonyms

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Verb

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Noun

(en noun)

The act of one who grasps or covets.

* 2009 , Jed McKenna, Spiritually Incorrect Enlightenment

These are my connections, my attachments. Maybe all I really am is the sum of all these connections, these fearful longings and graspings .

Anagrams

envious

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Feeling or exhibiting envy; jealously desiring the excellence or good fortune of another; maliciously grudging

an envious''' man, disposition, or attack; '''envious tongues

* Bible, Proverbs xxiv. 19.

Neither be thou envious at the wicked.

* Keble

My soul is envious of mine eye.

Excessively careful; cautious.

* Jeremy Taylor

No men are so envious of their health.

(obsolete) Malignant; mischievous; spiteful.

* Shakespeare

Each envious brier his weary legs doth scratch.

(obsolete, poetic) Inspiring envy.

* Spenser

He to him leapt, and that same envious gage / Of victor's glory from him snatched away.

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