: 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

Examples of ungraspable in a Sentence

advanced scientific theories of ungraspable complexity for the layperson
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Paul’s attachments are ungraspable, transient, and forever underwritten by raw desire. Vlada Gelman, TVLine, 27 Jan. 2025 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

Word History

First Known Use

1741, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of ungraspable was in 1741

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“Ungraspable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ungraspable. Accessed 21 Mar. 2025.

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