PREHENSILE
Dictionary entry overview: What does prehensile mean? • PREHENSILE (adjective)
The adjective PREHENSILE has 3 senses:
1. adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object
2. having a keen intellect
3. immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth
Familiarity information: PREHENSILE used as an adjective is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• PREHENSILE (adjective)
Meaning:
Adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object
Context example:
a monkey's prehensile tail
Antonym:
nonprehensile (not prehensile)
Meaning:
Having a keen intellect
Context example:
poets--those gifted strangely prehensile men
Similar:
intelligent (having the capacity for thought and reason especially to a high degree)
Meaning:
Immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth
Synonyms:
avaricious; grabby; grasping; greedy; covetous; prehensile
Context examples:
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
Similar:
acquisitive (eager to acquire and possess things especially material possessions or ideas)
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