as in incomprehensible
impossible to understand
advanced scientific theories of ungraspable complexity for the layperson
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Recent Examples of ungraspable
What looked readable from above becomes ungraspable at ground level.
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Daniel Scheffler,
Forbes.com,
30 Apr. 2026
This is an ungraspable tragedy and loss.
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Wesley Stenzel,
Entertainment Weekly,
1 Apr. 2026
To me, the self becomes a shifting monument, a territoire in perpetual metamorphosis, alive, fluid, and ungraspable.
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Mame-Diarra Niang,
Artforum,
2 Nov. 2025
Its scope is gargantuan and ungraspable, and as such, the appropriate level of grief does not seem human in scale.
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Literary Hub,
21 July 2025
Paul’s attachments are ungraspable, transient, and forever underwritten by raw desire.
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Vlada Gelman,
TVLine,
27 Jan. 2025
One gazes into the geographical expanse of this place to try to grasp the ungraspable scale of things.
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Andrew Cockburn,
Harper’s Magazine ,
5 Jan. 2023
It’s a megagenre, something the poet-philosopher Timothy Morton might call a hyperobject, ungraspable in its ubiquity and scale.
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Virginia Heffernan,
WIRED,
13 Dec. 2022
The scope of something inexpressible, a mammoth, ungraspable intimation, had overtaken him.
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Greg Jackson,
The New Yorker,
22 Nov. 2021
Daniel Scheffler,
Forbes.com,
30 Apr. 2026
This is an ungraspable tragedy and loss.
—
Wesley Stenzel,
Entertainment Weekly,
1 Apr. 2026
To me, the self becomes a shifting monument, a territoire in perpetual metamorphosis, alive, fluid, and ungraspable.
—
Mame-Diarra Niang,
Artforum,
2 Nov. 2025
Its scope is gargantuan and ungraspable, and as such, the appropriate level of grief does not seem human in scale.
—
Literary Hub,
21 July 2025
Paul’s attachments are ungraspable, transient, and forever underwritten by raw desire.
—
Vlada Gelman,
TVLine,
27 Jan. 2025
One gazes into the geographical expanse of this place to try to grasp the ungraspable scale of things.
—
Andrew Cockburn,
Harper’s Magazine ,
5 Jan. 2023
It’s a megagenre, something the poet-philosopher Timothy Morton might call a hyperobject, ungraspable in its ubiquity and scale.
—
Virginia Heffernan,
WIRED,
13 Dec. 2022
The scope of something inexpressible, a mammoth, ungraspable intimation, had overtaken him.
—
Greg Jackson,
The New Yorker,
22 Nov. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ungraspable
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To make a lunge like that, with his studs up, seemed incomprehensible, never mind dangerous.
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That principle has crumbled so far in the face of Wembanyama’s combination of incomprehensible on-court abilities, youthful enthusiasm and cosmopolitan-unto-eccentric savoir faire.
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Translation is a very mysterious thing because my goal is to create something that’s deeply equivalent but uses zero of the same words.
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That is until their husbands are killed under mysterious circumstances in the USSR, and the pair become CIA operatives.
Adjective
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But what feels most haunting about the arc of then to now, about Smith’s unfathomable issues and woes — yet obvious heart and particularly evident quest to find himself in recent years — is that his words then were spoken with a sense of arrival and past tense.
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The lack of a competitive instinct from any of the cable carriers is unfathomable, very similar to Smith Corona Marchant, which filed for reorganization in 1995.
Adjective
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Or a cartoony hamburger that is doing a little too much — the cheese drip a little too textured, the shine on the bun a little uncanny.
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Strong opening performances have fueled this intensity, which paradoxically arises from their uncanny parallels as footballing nations.
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The world premiere on Sunday – in the presence of Illumination boss Chris Meledandri and director Pierre Coffin, who is also the origin of the minions’ unintelligible chatter – kicks off one of the biggest Annecy Film Festival’s yet.
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The adversaries made for a striking scene, exchanging insults in mutually unintelligible languages in the dead of night.
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In spite of D'Arcy's best efforts, Rhaenyra is an impenetrable character with illogical choices and zero magnetism to the viewers (or seemingly, her councilors).
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The Shiatsung Project In a bungalow surrounded by an impenetrable wall, a woman has been raised in isolation by a talking screen mounted on the living room wall, fullfilling her every wish without ever revealing the reasons for its life and existence.
Adjective
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His esoteric sidewalk pasta pop-up, Estrano, happens sporadically.
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Such a fracture would normally sink a band, especially one that had been active for a decade, with five ambitious, esoteric albums to their credit and a solid, but perhaps not growing, fan base.
Adjective
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Those themes are compelling on paper, but they’re expressed through a confusing mix of abstraction and hyper-local specificity, hidden beneath biker rock riffs, and obscured through Allbrook’s wiry, wailing vocal delivery.
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Project proposals said the lanes are underutilized and confusing to drivers.
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