as in mysterious
impossible to understand
advanced scientific theories of ungraspable complexity for the layperson
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One gazes into the geographical expanse of this place to try to grasp the ungraspable scale of things.
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Andrew Cockburn, Harper’s Magazine , 5 Jan. 2023
It’s a megagenre, something the poet-philosopher Timothy Morton might call a hyperobject, ungraspable in its ubiquity and scale.
—Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 13 Dec. 2022
The scope of something inexpressible, a mammoth, ungraspable intimation, had overtaken him.
—Greg Jackson, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2021
The ecological relationships that Darwin brings to our attention tell us of a world of bonds much more complex and ungraspable than had ever previously been supposed.
—Longreads, 23 Mar. 2021
The Internet of Things is an ungraspable future, particularly when the fact of a future for Earth at all sometimes sounds implausible.
—Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 14 May 2020
The river itself was a standard-issue metaphor of time’s ungraspable flux and constancy.
—Wells Tower, Outside Online, 11 July 2018
The new volume, the first in English to bring together all seven of Machado’s story collections, illustrates both the refined pleasures and the somewhat ungraspable nature of his art.
—Sam Sacks, WSJ, 28 June 2018
The cascade of flickering, sometimes unreadable images is so unremitting, despite long stretches of an utterly blank screen, as to be nearly ungraspable.
—New York Times, 24 May 2018
Andrew Cockburn, Harper’s Magazine , 5 Jan. 2023
It’s a megagenre, something the poet-philosopher Timothy Morton might call a hyperobject, ungraspable in its ubiquity and scale.
—Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 13 Dec. 2022
The scope of something inexpressible, a mammoth, ungraspable intimation, had overtaken him.
—Greg Jackson, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2021
The ecological relationships that Darwin brings to our attention tell us of a world of bonds much more complex and ungraspable than had ever previously been supposed.
—Longreads, 23 Mar. 2021
The Internet of Things is an ungraspable future, particularly when the fact of a future for Earth at all sometimes sounds implausible.
—Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 14 May 2020
The river itself was a standard-issue metaphor of time’s ungraspable flux and constancy.
—Wells Tower, Outside Online, 11 July 2018
The new volume, the first in English to bring together all seven of Machado’s story collections, illustrates both the refined pleasures and the somewhat ungraspable nature of his art.
—Sam Sacks, WSJ, 28 June 2018
The cascade of flickering, sometimes unreadable images is so unremitting, despite long stretches of an utterly blank screen, as to be nearly ungraspable.
—New York Times, 24 May 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ungraspable
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The wild card who ultimately upends the conclave is the mysterious and contemplative Cardinal Benitez (Carlos Diehz), who arrives late to the proceedings.Marco della Cava, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2024
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This is what renders California’s increase mysterious.Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 29 Oct. 2024
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In between are pieces that stretch the definition of what a song even is, an idea Walker would push to incomprehensible extremes in his later work.SPIN Staff, SPIN, 30 Sep. 2024
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Your man could have poor hygiene, or a drug problem, or an incomprehensible hobby.James Parker, The Atlantic, 15 Oct. 2024
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Then, around 4:30 p.m., the nightmare scenario that was unfathomable just a few hours earlier became reality.Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2024
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These are unfathomable numbers for the layperson, but for an economist, these portend an upward trend that places a significant burden on both the government and individuals.Shakeel Ahmed, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
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With an uncanny ability to write 3-minute radio songs with occasional striking moments of lyrical depth, Petty made more hits than misses in the first two decades of his career.Al Shipley, SPIN, 1 Nov. 2024
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There’s just something uncanny about the way the two of us work together.Gary Graff, Billboard, 31 Oct. 2024
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Clinical notes are now legible and easy to retrieve but often bloated with unnecessary, duplicative, and, at times, unintelligible content.Spencer Dorn, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
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The researchers say that if the attack were carried out in the real world, people could be socially engineered into believing the unintelligible prompt might do something useful, such as improve their CV.Matt Burgess, WIRED, 17 Oct. 2024
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In January 1915, their ship, the Endurance, became trapped in the thick, impenetrable ice of the Weddell Sea.Tony Bradley, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
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Contractors claimed their prototypes would turn America into an impenetrable fortress.Outside Online, Outside Online, 9 Oct. 2024
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One of London’s most iconic esoteric shops, Watkins, has an entire section dedicated to cards, while Treadwell’s, another destination store for the occult, makes a trade out of unusual or collectable second-hand decks.Nina-Sophia Miralles, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
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To that end, Bach often pursued esoteric symbolism and numerology, with vocal lines crossing in the music when Christ is mentioned, and the like.Jan Swafford, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2024
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The episode’s host, John Mulaney, played a news junkie who was quizzed about the more obscure 2024 general-election players, such as Special Counsel Jack Smith.Amanda Wicks, The Atlantic, 3 Nov. 2024
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Six years after the 2018 Supreme Court decision that led to widespread legalization of mobile sports betting, U.S. sportsbooks dangle a variety of granular and obscure potential wagers in front of customers.Dan Bernstein, Sportico.com, 1 Nov. 2024
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