Grasp vs Ungraspable - What's the difference?
grasp | ungraspable |
To grip; to take hold, particularly with the hand.
(senseid)To understand.
Grip.
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*:Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
(senseid)Understanding.
That which is accessible; that which is within one's reach or ability.
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Not able to be reached or grasped.
*1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick :
*:It is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life; and this is the key to it all.
As a verb grasp
is to grip; to take hold, particularly with the hand.As a noun grasp
is grip.As an adjective ungraspable is
not able to be reached or grasped.grasp
English
(wikipedia grasp)Verb
(en verb)- I have never been able to grasp the concept of infinity .
