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Definition of Graspable
1. Adjective. Capable of being apprehended or understood.
Similar to: Comprehendible, Comprehensible
Derivative terms: Apprehend, Intelligibility, Understand, Understand, Understand, Understand, Understandability
Definition of Graspable
1. a. Capable of being grasped.
Definition of Graspable
1. Adjective. Able to be grasped ¹
2. Adjective. Able to be understood or comprehended; understandable ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Graspable
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Graspable
Literary usage of Graspable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of Psychology by Edward Bradford ( Titchener, Granville Stanley Hall (1902)
""At times, at the moment of reaction I see a whitish convex thing which appeals
to me as something graspable; the rest of the tone is not thus graspable. ..."
2. The Child; His Thinking, Feeling, and Doing by Amy Eliza Tanner (1915)
"From the fourth to the sixth month, both of these interests continue, and are
fed and supplemented by the great interest in graspable objects. ..."
3. Cambridge University Magazine (1840)
"graspable, however, we cannot say, because grasp is Saxon. Yet Keats writes
half-graspable. Language.—Simplicity is not the sole element of poetical ..."
4. The Child: His Thinking, Feeling, and Doing by Amy Eliza Tanner (1904)
"From the fourth to the sixth month, both of these interests continue, and are
fed and supplemented by the great interest in graspable objects. ..."
5. A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain (1880)
"That tree had witnessed the assaults of men in mail—how remote such a time seems,
and how un- graspable is the fact that real men ever did fight in real ..."
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