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
The scope of something inexpressible, a mammoth, ungraspable intimation, had overtaken him.
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Greg Jackson,
The New Yorker,
22 Nov. 2021
Eraserhead was so ungraspable, so far into left field, that most critics dismissed it at the time.
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Jordan Mintzer,
The Hollywood Reporter,
3 Sep. 2019
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
The scope of something inexpressible, a mammoth, ungraspable intimation, had overtaken him.
—
Greg Jackson,
The New Yorker,
22 Nov. 2021
Eraserhead was so ungraspable, so far into left field, that most critics dismissed it at the time.
—
Jordan Mintzer,
The Hollywood Reporter,
3 Sep. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ungraspable
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There have been times when acts of atrocity have been going on — and gosh, some of those things are incomprehensible — yet humanity has found a way.
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Being joyful there — in the Dominican Republic, where small shacks and houses pieced together by junkyard scraps sometimes hold families with over a dozen members — seems incomprehensible.
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Beulah's spurned heir Joaquin (Juan Pablo Raba) calls up the mysterious Mariana (Raoul Max Trujillo) to help with his many problems, which include his ranch-usurping half-brother Rob-Will and those Duttons from Montana.
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Nicolas Winding Refn’s audacious return to feature filmmaking is a gorgeous, mysterious act of cinema, sensorial and transgressive, that demands to be experienced on its own terms.
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Two months of heavy rainfall resulted in then-unfathomable devastation that still reverberates today.
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To some, the Galatasaray forward’s selection in the starting line-up is unfathomable and is now being used to portray Nagelsmann as stubborn or unwilling to react to performances.
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The 6-foot-11 Condon rebounds relentlessly, protects the rim, delivers uncanny passes and makes winning plays, none bigger than his hustle to secure Florida’s comeback victory against Houston in the 2025 national championship game.
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Like Buster Keaton before him, Knoxville has an uncanny awareness of how his death-defying escapades appear on camera.
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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 the venue’s defense, the arena’s near-impenetrable exterior likely had something to do with its appeal.
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Quaintance, in particular, is potentially a monster on defense, and uniting him with Wembanyama might make this team virtually impenetrable.
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Afterwards, group members went on to form several other hugely meaningful outfits such as Slint, Gastr Del Sol, Bastro, Papa M and the For Carnation, transmuting Squirrel Bait’s Reagan-era aggression into more esoteric, impossible-to-classify sonic explorations.
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This offers the do-it-yourself warrior a simple, direct route from antiquated lead-acid to state-of-the-art lithium without having to search for esoteric parts online.
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Devine told me that e-bike and moped marketing is confusing and regulations keeping e-bikes safely classified are cloudy.
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That could be confusing to general audiences, especially those accustomed to seeing the heat index instead.
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“Ungraspable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ungraspable. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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