graspable

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adjective

Able to be grasped

Similar
intelligibleapprehensibleperceivableunderstandablecomprehensiblecomprehendible
Opposite
unintelligible
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Meanings

adjectivegraspable (comparative more graspable, superlative most 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 & antonyms

adjectiveAble to be understood or comprehended; understandable

Similar
intelligible

antonym(s) of

Opposite
unintelligible

More synonyms by meaning

adjectivecapable of being apprehended or understood

Similar
apprehensibleintelligibleperceivableunderstandablecomprehensiblecomprehendible
Also see
apprehensibleclearcomprehendiblecomprehensibleexotericintelligiblepellucidperceivableperspicuoustangibleunderstandable

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

From grasp + -able.

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APA

graspable. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/graspable

MLA

“graspable.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/graspable. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “graspable,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/graspable.

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