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graspable

[ UK /ɡɹˈɑːspəbə‍l/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. capable of being apprehended or understood

How To Use graspable In A Sentence

  • I'm interested in your view of how the abstract or ungraspable relates to the limitations of our physical lives-to the fact that we are material, mortal beings.
  • There's something that's simultaneously catchy and ungraspable about the whole thing, which just might explain its appeal.
  • I think with this he has grasped the ungraspable.
  • Very shrewd observations are to be found in his reviews, for instance his indication, in reviewing La Touche's _Fragoletta_, of that common fault of ambitious novels, a sort of woolly and "ungraspable" looseness of construction and story, which constantly bewilders the reader as to what is going on. The Human Comedy: Introductions and Appendix
  • It's to give a "graspable," whole picture -- take it home, put it on the shelf, and now I've got the view of it. Why Gorbachev Happened: His Triumphs & His Failure
  • The problem, as he pointed out—citing the work of Mark Liberman, a linguistics professor at the University of Pennsylvania—is that statistical differences between groups are much more graspable when shown graphically, usually in overlapping distribution curves. The Truth About Grief
  • Chan's book, Before a Blue Sky Moon, reveals a poet who specializes in evoking the ungraspable.
  • The assumption is that things graspable by intellect alone belong to a realm above the material, corporeal world and hence are timeless.
  • Within this ungraspable setting are separate parts as inconsistent as dream sequences.
  • In this being in front of me, what is already given to me and what remains forever ungraspable: his body, his gestures, his breath?
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