ungraspable
adjective
un·grasp·able
ˌən-ˈgra-spə-bəl
: not able to be grasped : not graspable
especially
: not easily understood or imagined
That tree had witnessed the assaults of men in mail—how remote such a time seems, and how ungraspable is the fact that real men ever did fight in real armor! … —Mark Twain
… students … sometimes recoil in stupefaction and dismay at their ungraspable complexity. —William Plowden
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“Ungraspable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ungraspable. Accessed 28 Mar. 2025.
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