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graspable

graspable adjective: able to be grasped.

Adjective

graspable (comparative more graspable, superlative most graspable)

  1. Able to be grasped
  2. Able to be understood or comprehended; understandable
    • After one clears away all the rhetoric theorizing, politics ultimately concern people, and Vogl never loses sight of this. Eschewing the abstract and intangible slogan, she writes songs about believable people, breaking the political down into a graspable, digestible form.1985 December 21, Nan Donald, “Flat-picking up a Storm”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 23, page 11
    Synonyms:
    intelligible

Synonyms of graspable

Antonyms

Forms of graspable

comparativemore graspable
superlativemost graspable

Origin of graspable

From grasp + -able.

Words formed from graspable

Questions about graspable

What does graspable mean?
Graspable means able to be grasped.
What part of speech is graspable?
Graspable is an adjective.

Words near graspable in the dictionary

  1. grasp at a straw
  2. grasp at straws
  3. grasp for straws
  4. grasp the nettle
  5. graspability
  6. graspable
  7. graspableness
  8. grasped
  9. grasped at straws
  10. grasped the nettle
  11. grasper

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