- Types Of Speech
- You can use prehensile as a adjective satellite or as a article in a sentence.
- About Prehensile
- A 3 syllables adjective satellite and 10 letters with the letters e, h, i, l, n, p, r, and s, 6 consonants, 4 vowels and 3 syllables with the middle letters en. Prehensile starts with a consonant and ends with a vowel with the starting letters p, pr, pre, preh, prehe, and the ending characters are e, le, ile, sile, nsile, ..
- Definition
- 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 greed
- Origin/Roots
- French
- School Grade
- Prehensile is set as a sat word that starts with p, ends with e, 3 syllables, 4 vowels and 10 letters.
- Pig Latin
- Prehensile in Pig Latin is said as "ehensilepray or ehensileprway".
- Unigram
- p | r | e | h | e | n | s | i | l | e
- Bigram
- pr | re | eh | he | en | ns | si | il | le
- Trigram
- pre | reh | ehe | hen | ens | nsi | sil | ile
- Quadrigram
- preh | rehe | ehen | hens | ensi | nsil | sile
- Word Gram
- Adjective Satellite Examples
- 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 greed - having a keen intellect;
"poets--those gifted strangely prehensile men"- A.T.Quiller-Couch
- Article Examples
- adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object;
"a monkey's prehensile tail"
| Synonym | Definition |
|---|---|
| Acquiring | the act of acquiring something "I envied his talent for acquiring" "he''s much more interested in the getting than in the giving" |
| Acquisitive | eager to acquire and possess things especially material possessions or ideas "an acquisitive mind" "an aquisitive society in which the craving for material things seems never satisfied" |
| Aegir | a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary) |
| All Knowing | |
| All Devouring | |
| All Engulfing | |
| All Knowing | |
| Apperceptive | able to relate new percepts to past experience |
| Appercipient | |
| Apprehending |
View all cognitive synonyms for Prehensile
| Anagram | Definition |
|---|---|
| Prehensile | 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 greed |
View English words with the unique letters used in prehensile. Words With The Letters Ehilnprs
| Similar Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Acquisitive | eager to acquire and possess things especially material possessions or ideas; "an acquisitive mind"; "an aquisitive society in which the craving for material things seems never satisfied" |
Prehensile Is In These Word Lists
- Starts With P
- Ends With E
- Spelled With / Contains Letters

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