Synonyms for Grasp:

n.
- common sense
- fall/fit into place
- have a feel for something
- make sense of something
- see the light
- keep hold of something
• acquaintance
- conversances
• acumen
- dis crimination
- dis criminations
- dis-crimination
- dis-criminations
- good tastes
- in sights
- in tuition
- in tuitions
- in-sight
- in-sights
- in-tuition
- in-tuitions
- smartnesses
• appreciation
- aesthetic senses
- high regards
- re cognition
- re cognitions
- re gards
- re spect
- re spects
- re-cognition
- re-gard
- re-spect
- re-spects
- responsivenessses
• attribute
- grasp
• brainpower
- IQS
- intellectual power
- intellectual powers
- mental ability
- mental capacity
• clasp
- Fibulas
- safety pins
• command
- authority
- charge
- commission
- control
- coordination
- direction
- discipline
- domination
- government
- law
- management
- mandate
- power
- reign
- rule
- sovereignty
- supremacy
- sway
- will
• comprehension
- prehensions
- slow takes
• custody
- conservation
- custody
- engagement
- maintenance
- reservation
- retention
• fist
- clenched fist
• genius
- precocities
- superabilities
• grasp
- hold
• grip
- crushings
- grapnel
- grapnels
- handclasp
- handclasps
- handgrips
- handholds
- handshake
- handshakes
• hand
- including fingers dukes
- meta carpi
- meta carpus
- meta-carpi
- meta-carpus
• handle
- hafts
- helves
- hilt
- hilts
- tiller
- tillers
• interpretation
- knowings
- rendering
• ken
- apprehendings
- realizings
• knowledge
- Philosophies
- facts
- inside story
- lore
• mastery
- virtuosities
• notice
- re mark
- re marks
- re-marks
• power
- competence
- energy
- force
- might
- potency
- puissance
- strength
- vigor
v.
• absorb
- gat in to
- gat into
- get in to
- gets in to
- gets into
- getting in to
- getting into
- got in to
- gotten in to
- gotten into
- in corporate
- in corporates
- in-corporate
- in-corporates
- latches onto
- latching onto
• appreciate
- am aware of
- am cognizant of
- am conscious of
- are aware of
- are cognizant of
- are conscious of
- art aware of
- art cognizant of
- art conscious of
- being cognizant of
- being conscious of
- catch drift
- catches drift
- catches the drift
- catching drift
- catching the drift
- caught drift
- caught the drift
- is aware of
- is cognizant of
- is conscious of
- re cognize
- re cognized
- re cognizes
- re cognizing
- re-cognized
- re-cognizing
- saw daylight
- seeing daylight
- sees daylight
- sympathized with
- sympathizes with
- sympathizing with
- takes account of
- taking account of
- took account of
- was cognizant of
- was conscious of
- wast aware of
- wast cognizant of
- wast conscious of
- were aware of
- were cognizant of
- were conscious of
- wert aware of
- wert cognizant of
- wert conscious of
• apprehend
- be lieve
- be-lieve
- gat picture
- gat the picture
- get picture
- gets picture
- gets the picture
- getting picture
- getting the picture
- got picture
- got the picture
- gotten picture
- gotten the picture
• assimilate
- Osmoses
- in gest
- in gests
- in-gest
- in-gests
- osmosed
- osmosing
• catch
- dis cern
- dis-cern
- gat fingers on
- gat one fingers on
- gat one's fingers on
- gat ones fingers on
- get one fingers on
- get ones fingers on
- gets fingers on
- gets one fingers on
- gets one's fingers on
- gets ones fingers on
- getting fingers on
- getting one fingers on
- getting one's fingers on
- getting ones fingers on
- glommed
- glomming
- gloms
- got fingers on
- got one fingers on
- got one's fingers on
- got ones fingers on
- gotten fingers on
- gotten one fingers on
- gotten one's fingers on
- gotten ones fingers on
- lays hold of
- pounced on
- pounces on
- pouncing on
- prehending
- prehends
- takes hold of
- taking hold of
- took hold of
• clasp
- bear hugged
- bear hugging
- colled
• clinch
- grabbed hold of
- grabbing hold of
- grabs hold of
- laid hands on
- laying hands on
- makes fast
- making fast
- rivetted
- rivetting
• cling
- am true to
- are true to
- art true to
- being true to
- clave to
- cleaved to
- cleaves to
- cleaving to
- cleft to
- clove to
- co here
- co heres
- co hering
- co-here
- co-heres
- co-hering
- freezes to
- freezing to
- froze to
- hanged in
- hanged onto
- hanging onto
- hangs in
- hangs onto
- held fast
- holding fast
- holds fast
- hung in
- hung onto
- is true to
- staid put
- stayed put
- stays put
- sticked like glue
- sticking like glue
- stuck like glue
- was true to
- wast true to
- were true to
- wert true to
• clutch
- clinging to
- clung to
- put snare on
- puts snare on
- puts the snare on
- putting snare on
- putting the snare on
• come at
- dis cover
- dis covered
- dis covering
- dis covers
- dis-cover
- dis-covered
- dis-covering
- dis-covers
• command
- coordinate
- dominate
- govern
• comprehend
- capiched
- capiches
- capiching
- cognized
- cognizes
- cognizing
- gotchaed
- gotchaing
- gotchas
• desire
- covet
- crave
- desire
- hanker
- hope
- hunger
- itch
- long
- lust
- need
- pine
- thirst
- want
- wish
- yearn
• digest
- de liberate
- de liberated
- de liberates
- de liberating
- de-liberate
- de-liberated
- de-liberates
- de-liberating
- thinks over
• embrace
- takes arms
- takes in arms
- taking arms
- taking in arms
- took arms
- took in arms
• envisage/envision
- be holding
- be holds
- be-held
- be-hold
- be-holding
- be-holds
- fore saw
- fore see
- fore seeing
- fore seen
- fore sees
- fore-saw
- fore-see
- fore-seeing
- fore-seen
- fore-sees
- formed mental picture of
- forming mental picture of
- forms mental picture of
- had a picture of
- had picture of
- haddest a picture of
- haddest picture of
- hadst a picture of
- hadst picture of
- has a picture of
- has picture of
- hast a picture of
- hast picture of
- hath a picture of
- hath picture of
- have picture of
- having a picture of
- having picture of
- look up on
- looked up on
- looking up on
- looking upon
- looks up on
- looks upon
- pre dict
- pre-dict
- thinking up
- thinks up
- view in mind eye
- view in minds eye
- view mind eye
- view mind's eye
- view minds eye
- viewed in mind eye
- viewed in mind's eye
- viewed in minds eye
- viewed mind eye
- viewed mind's eye
- viewed minds eye
- viewing in mind eye
- viewing in mind's eye
- viewing in minds eye
- viewing mind eye
- viewing mind's eye
- viewing minds eye
- views in mind eye
- views in mind's eye
- views in minds eye
- views mind eye
- views mind's eye
- views minds eye
• fathom
- figures out
- gat bottom
- gat the bottom
- gat to bottom
- gat to the bottom
- get bottom
- get the bottom
- get to bottom
- gets bottom
- gets the bottom
- gets to bottom
- gets to the bottom
- getting bottom
- getting the bottom
- getting to bottom
- getting to the bottom
- got bottom
- got the bottom
- got to bottom
- got to the bottom
- gotten bottom
- gotten the bottom
- gotten to bottom
- gotten to the bottom
- pro bed
- pro-bed
- un ravel
- un raveled
- un raveling
- un ravelled
- un ravelling
- un ravels
- un-ravel
- un-raveled
- un-raveling
- un-ravelled
- un-ravelling
- un-ravels
• feel
• follow
- catches on
- catching on
• grapple
- did battle
- didst battle
- does battle
- doest battle
- doeth battle
- dost battle
- doth battle
• hang on
- am tough
- are tough
- art tough
- being tough
- held on
- holding on
- is tough
- re main
- re mained
- re maining
- re mains
- re-main
- re-mains
- was tough
- wast tough
- were tough
- wert tough
• hug
- art near to
- being near to
- enbosomed
- enbosoming
- enbosoms
- fold arms
- folded arms
- folded in arms
- folding arms
- folding in arms
- folds arms
- folds in arms
- followed closely
- following closely
- follows closely
- held onto
- holding onto
- holds onto
- is near to
- keeping close
- kept close
- lay close
- lied close
- lies close
- lying close
- staid near
- stayed near
- staying near
- stays near
- take in one arms
- take in ones arms
- take one arms
- take one's arms
- take ones arms
- takes in one arms
- takes in one's arms
- takes in ones arms
- takes one arms
- takes one's arms
- takes ones arms
- taking in one arms
- taking in one's arms
- taking in ones arms
- taking one arms
- taking one's arms
- taking ones arms
- took in one arms
- took in one's arms
- took in ones arms
- took one arms
- took one's arms
- took ones arms
- was near to
- wast near to
- were near to
- wert near to
• intuit
- feel in one bones
- feel in ones bones
- feel one bones
- feel one's bones
- feel ones bones
- gat vibrations
- gets vibrations
- getting vibrations
- got vibrations
- gotten vibrations
• keep
- de posit
- de posited
- de positing
- de posits
- de tain
- de tains
- de-posit
- de-posited
- de-positing
- de-posits
- de-tain
- de-tains
- dealt in
- pre serve
- pre served
- pre serves
- pre serving
- pre-serve
- pre-served
- pre-serves
- pre-serving
- re serve
- re served
- re serving
- re-serve
- re-served
- re-serves
- re-serving
- traded in
- trades in
- trading in
- with held
- with hold
- with holding
- with holds
- with-held
- with-hold
- with-holds
• learn
- glean
• lock
- buttoning up
- buttons up
- turn key
- turned key
- turned the key
- turning key
- turning the key
- turns key
- turns the key
• make out
- de cipher
- de ciphered
- de ciphering
- de ciphers
- de duce
- de duces
- de duct
- de ducted
- de ducting
- de ducts
- de rive
- de rived
- de rives
- de riving
- de-cipher
- de-ciphered
- de-ciphering
- de-ciphers
- de-duce
- de-duces
- de-duct
- de-ducted
- de-ducting
- de-ducts
- de-rive
- de-rived
- de-rives
- de-riving
• master
- beat game
- beat system
- beating game
- beating system
- beating the game
- beating the system
- beats game
- beats system
- beats the game
- beats the system
- buried yourself in
- buries yourself in
- burying yourself in
- excelled in
- excelling in
- excels in
- gained mastery
- gaining mastery
- gains mastery
- gat down cold
- gat hold of
- gets down cold
- gets hold of
- getting down cold
- got down cold
- gotten down cold
- gotten hold of
- hit books
- hitting the books
- learn ropes
- megastudied
- megastudies
- megastudying
Other synonyms:

•

cup
hook
shake

•

scratch

•

touch

•

take

•

carry

•

hold-down

•

benefit
contact
lick

•

accept
brush

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• feel

• figure out

dope out

• follow

Followed
caught on

• grip

clap a hand on
latch on to

• hang on

be tough
hold on
holds on

• keenness

acumen

• know

• learn

• master

• pinch

Twinged
Twinging

• retain

• sense

be with it
feel in bones
feel in gut
felt in gut
get the impression
get vibes
has a hunch
have a feeling
have a hunch
have feeling

• snap

bite at

• surprise

• tackle

• take

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Forward Entailment
- Noun, singular or mass
  understanding.
Independent
- Noun, singular or mass
  appreciation, apprehend, apprehension, grip, hand, handle, knowledge, master, perception, possession, scope, understand, Harnessing.
- Verb, non-3rd person singular present
  appreciate, comprehend, possess, realize, recognise, understand.
- Verb, base form
  absorb, acknowledge, acquire, address, adhere, appreciate, apprehend, assimilate, capitalize, comprehend, conceive, discern, exploit, fathom, grapple, handle, harness, interpret, master, possess, realize, reap, recognise, tackle, tackling, tap, understand, understood, utilise, utilize.
Other Related
- Noun, singular or mass
  comprehension, mastering, mastery.
- Verb, base form
  capitalise.

What are the hypernyms for Grasp?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

hypernyms for grasp (as nouns)
- attribute
  tentacle.
- cognition
  ken, sight.
hypernyms for grasp (as verbs)
- contact
  cling, clasp, latch on, hang.

What are the hyponyms for Grasp?

Hyponyms are more specific words categorized under a broader term, known as a hypernym.

hyponyms for grasp (as nouns)
- attribute
  influence.
- cognition
  capableness, potentiality, capability.
hyponyms for grasp (as verbs)
- contact
  hold, take hold.

What are the opposite words for grasp?

The word "grasp" is often used to indicate understanding or knowledge of something, as well as physically holding onto an object or idea. However, there are various antonyms that convey the opposite meaning. For example, the words "misunderstand", "confuse", and "misinterpret" all imply a lack of comprehension or clarity. Additionally, words like "drop", "release", and "let go" express the concept of releasing one's hold on something or losing control. Other antonyms for "grasp" include "ignore", "disregard", and "neglect", indicating a lack of attention or concern towards something. By understanding these antonyms, we can better appreciate the various nuances and shades of meaning associated with the word "grasp".

What are the antonyms for Grasp?

n.
• hold, grip
- avoidance
- ignorance
- misconception
- misunderstanding
- release
• noun
- Misperception
- abandon
- fail
- forfeit
- give up
- helplessness
- impotence
- impotency
- let go
- lose
- miss
- powerlessness
- relinquishment
- weakness
v.
• get the wrong idea
- misunderstand
• grab
- be immune
- free
- give
- not get
- offer
- receive
- stop
• misunderstand
- Miscomprehend
- Misconstrued
- Misknow
- am at cross purposes
- am bewildered
- am confused
- am cross purposes
- am perplexed
- are at cross purposes
- are bewildered
- are confused
- are cross purposes
- are perplexed
- art at cross purposes
- art bewildered
- art confused
- art cross purposes
- art perplexed
- be at cross purposes
- be bewildered
- be confused
- be cross purposes
- be perplexed
- being at cross purposes
- being bewildered
- being confused
- being cross purposes
- being perplexed
- gat signals crossed
- gat signals mixed
- gat wrong impression
- get signals crossed
- get signals mixed
- get wrong
- get wrong impression
- gets signals crossed
- gets signals mixed
- gets wrong
- gets wrong impression
- getting signals crossed
- getting signals mixed
- getting wrong
- getting wrong impression
- got signals crossed
- got signals mixed
- got wrong
- got wrong impression
- gotten signals crossed
- gotten signals mixed
- gotten wrong impression
- is at cross purposes
- is bewildered
- is confused
- is cross purposes
- is perplexed
- mis applied
- mis applies
- mis apply
- mis applying
- mis apprehend
- mis apprehended
- mis apprehending
- mis apprehends
- mis calculate
- mis calculated
- mis calculates
- mis calculating
- mis comprehend
- mis comprehended
- mis comprehending
- mis comprehends
- mis conceive
- mis conceives
- mis conceiving
- mis construe
- mis construed
- mis construes
- mis construing
- mis interpreted
- mis interpreting
- mis interprets
- mis judged
- mis judges
- mis judging
- mis knew
- mis know
- mis knowing
- mis known
- mis knows
- mis read
- mis reading
- mis reads
- mis reckon
- mis reckoned
- mis reckoning
- mis take
- mis taken
- mis takes
- mis taking
- mis took
- mis understand
- mis understanding
- mis understands
- mis understood
- mis-applied
- mis-applies
- mis-apply
- mis-applying
- mis-apprehend
- mis-apprehended
- mis-apprehending
- mis-apprehends
- mis-calculate
- mis-calculates
- mis-calculating
- mis-comprehend
- mis-comprehended
- mis-comprehending
- mis-comprehends
- mis-conceive
- mis-conceived
- mis-conceives
- mis-conceiving
- mis-construe
- mis-construed
- mis-construes
- mis-construing
- mis-interpreted
- mis-interprets
- mis-judged
- mis-judges
- mis-judging
- mis-knew
- mis-know
- mis-knowing
- mis-known
- mis-knows
- mis-read
- mis-reading
- mis-reads
- mis-reckon
- mis-reckoned
- mis-reckoning
- mis-reckons
- mis-take
- mis-takes
- mis-taking
- mis-took
- mis-understand
- mis-understanding
- mis-understands
- miscomprehended
- miscomprehending
- miscomprehends
- misknew
- misknowing
- misknown
- misknows
- miss point
- miss the point
- missed point
- missed the point
- misses point
- misses the point
- missing point
- missing the point
- not register
- not registered
- not registering
- not registers
- take amiss
- take wrongly
- takes amiss
- takes wrongly
- taking amiss
- taking wrongly
- took amiss
- took wrongly
- was at cross purposes
- was bewildered
- was confused
- was cross purposes
- was perplexed
- wast at cross purposes
- wast bewildered
- wast confused
- wast cross purposes
- wast perplexed
- were at cross purposes
- were bewildered
- were confused
- were cross purposes
- were perplexed
- wert at cross purposes
- wert bewildered
- wert confused
- wert cross purposes
- wert perplexed
• noun
- misapprehend
- misconstrue
- misinterpret
- misperceive
- misread
• understand
- avoid
- disallow
- discourage
- dissuade
- neglect
- overlook
- refuse
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Usage examples for Grasp

Down he came, the parachute in his grasp.

"Leo the Circus Boy"

Ralph Bonehill

She put out her hand and let it rest for a moment in his grasp.

"Jane Oglander"

Marie Belloc Lowndes

Mrs. Collingwood very quietly pulled her hand out of his grasp.

"The Locusts' Years"

Mary Helen Fee

Famous quotes with Grasp

Imagine a thousand more such daily intrusions in your life, every hour and minute of every day, and you can grasp the source of this paranoia, this anger that could consume me at any moment if I lost control.

Jack Henry Abbott
There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.

Ansel Adams
The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.

Henry Adams
It's slightly complicated for people to grasp the idea of a head of state in human form.

Prince Andrew
Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.

Norman Ralph Augustine

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n.

v.

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Independent

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