Grasps Synonyms and Antonyms

To perceive directly with the intellect
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. knows
  2. apprehends
  3. compasses
  4. comprehends
  5. fathoms
  6. understands
  7. kens
A strong or powerful influence
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. grips
  2. hold
An intellectual hold or understanding
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. grips
  2. savvies
  3. apprehensions
  4. hold
  5. understandings
Antonyms:
  1. releases
  2. misses
  3. misunderstandings
  4. misconceptions
  5. avoidances
The limit of capability
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. compasses
  2. ranges
  3. capacities
  4. reaches
  5. scopes
Firm control
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. grips
  2. hold
To take hold of intellectually; comprehend.
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. understands

Words Related to Grasps

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Grasps Sentence Examples

  • On the other hand, no Christian, and perhaps no theist, is interested in maintaining that Butler grasps the whole truth.

  • He curses love and grasps the gold.

  • As such, they were eagerly welcomed by the clergy; for a single magistrate, sitting in secret without appeal, necessarily grasps at whatever will lighten his burden of responsibility.

  • The highest faculty of man, reason, intellectus, intellectualis visio, is that which is not content with the individual or partial, but grasps the whole and thereby comprehends the parts.

  • Hidden partly behind a tree, the merry old elf grasps a disembodied doll's head with fake blood streaming from its eye sockets.

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