ungraspable
UK/ʌnˈɡɹɑːspəb(ə)l/
ungraspable adjective: not able to be reached or grasped.
Adjective
ungraspable (not comparable)
- Not able to be reached or grasped.
- It is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life; and this is the key to it all.1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC
- Not able to be remembered or comprehended.
- Before, somewhere and time ungraspable, blurred and beset with bewildering details, she had lain alone in bed, listening to gladsome bird voices, mingled with a sense of distressed humanity.1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 250
- Voldemorting is the anti-SEO, the anti-keyword, and the anti-hashtag. It transforms your subject from a single mass into an ungraspable swarm.2018 September 10, Gretchen McCulloch, “Welcome to Voldemorting, the Ultimate SEO Dis”, in WIRED, archived from the original on 21 Nov 2018
Origin of ungraspable
From un- + graspable.
Words formed from ungraspable
Questions about ungraspable
- What does ungraspable mean?
- Ungraspable means not able to be reached or grasped.
- What part of speech is ungraspable?
- Ungraspable is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce ungraspable?
- Ungraspable is pronounced /ʌnˈɡɹɑːspəb(ə)l/ (UK).
Words near ungraspable in the dictionary
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