recondite
abstract
inscrutable
deep
bend the brain
abstruse
profundity
involute
abstrusely
imponderable
subtle
clear as mud
have a handle on
thick
opaque
obscure
unintelligible
decode
mysterious
acataleptic
discern
galaxy-brain
indigestible
hard going
dutchy
oversit
problem
mystifying
brain-bending
incomprehensible
swither
bottomless
dense
uncomprehensible
grasping
trying
Daedalian
oracular
muddy the waters
touch
Partridgean
unintelligently
uncomprehending
ambiguity
forsta
intercomprehension
uncomprehended
misgrasp
penetrate
darkly
forstand
glom on
escape
puzzling
ununderstanding
elude
incomprehensibility
obscurity
unfathom
tell
misunderstood
scuffling
brown study
vague
unintelligibleness
indescribable
take in
turgid
getcha
indiscernible
blindfold
comprehend
grip
over one's head
polymodal
unfathomable
quillet
pick up
grasp
wramp
catch no ball
hang
uptake
seen
unsensible
incomprehension
unenlightenment
catch
sense
elusive
burden
over the rainbow
know like a book
recondite
abstract
inscrutable
deep
abstruse
involute
imponderable
subtle
clear as mud
thick
opaque
obscure
unintelligible
mysterious
acataleptic
galaxy-brain
indigestible
dutchy
mystifying
brain-bending
incomprehensible
bottomless
dense
uncomprehensible
trying
Daedalian
oracular
Partridgean
uncomprehending
uncomprehended
puzzling
misunderstood
vague
indescribable
turgid
indiscernible
over one's head
polymodal
unfathomable
unsensible
elusive
abstrusely
unintelligently
darkly
profundity
problem
grasping
ambiguity
intercomprehension
misgrasp
ununderstanding
incomprehensibility
obscurity
scuffling
brown study
unintelligibleness
grip
quillet
grasp
wramp
hang
uptake
incomprehension
unenlightenment
bend the brain
have a handle on
decode
discern
oversit
swither
muddy the waters
touch
forsta
penetrate
forstand
glom on
escape
elude
unfathom
tell
take in
blindfold
comprehend
pick up
seen
catch
sense
burden
know like a book
misgrasp
adj
- Difficult to understand; abstruse; hard to conceptualize.
- Free from representational qualities, in particular the non-representational styles of the 20ᵗʰ century.
- Apart from practice or reality; vague; theoretical; impersonal; not applied.
- Lacking a story.
- Absolute.
- Being a partial basis for subclasses rather than a complete template for objects.
- Not concrete: conceptual, ideal.
- As a noun, denoting a concept or intangible as opposed to an object, place, or person.
- Separately expressing a property or attribute of an object that is considered to be inherent to that object: attributive, ascriptive.
- Pertaining comprehensively to, or representing, a class or group of objects, as opposed to any specific object; considered apart from any application to a particular object: general, generic, nonspecific; representational.
- Insufficiently factual.
noun
- A powdered solid extract of a medicinal substance mixed with lactose.
- Concentrated essence of a product.
- An abridgement or summary of a longer publication.
- The theoretical way of looking at things; something that exists only in idealized form.
- An abstract work of art.
- An abstraction; an abstract term; that which is abstract.
- A summary title of the key points detailing a tract of land, for ownership; abstract of title.
- Something that concentrates in itself the qualities of a larger item, or multiple items.
verb
- To draw off (interest or attention).
- He was wholly abstracted by other objects.
- To separate; to disengage.
- To conceptualize an ideal subgroup by means of the generalization of an attribute, as follows: by apprehending an attribute inherent to one individual, then separating that attribute and contemplating it by itself, then conceiving of that attribute as a general quality, then despecifying that conceived quality with respect to several or many individuals, and by then ideating a group composed of those individuals perceived to possess said quality.
- To steal; to take away; to remove without permission.
- To consider abstractly; to contemplate separately or by itself; to consider theoretically; to look at as a general quality.
- To produce an abstraction, usually by refactoring existing code. Generally used with "out".
- To create abstractions.
- To summarize; to abridge; to epitomize.
- To remove; to take away; withdraw.
- To perform the process of abstraction.
- To withdraw oneself; to retire.
adj
- Hard to penetrate or comprehend; profound; intricate; obscure.
- In a (specified) number of rows or layers.
- Positioned or reaching far, especially down through something or into something.
- Voluminous.
- Far in extent in another (non-downwards, but generally also non-upwards) direction away from a point of reference.
- Low in pitch.
- Far from the center of the playing area, near to the boundary of the playing area, either in absolute terms or relative to a point of reference.
- Distant in the past, ancient.
- Significant, not superficial, in extent.
- Muddy; boggy; sandy; said of roads.
- Extending far down from the top, or surface, to the bottom, literally or figuratively.
- Penetrating a long way, especially a long way forward.
- Positioned back, or downfield, towards one's own goal, or towards or behind one's baseline or similar reference point.
- Thick.
- Profound, having great meaning or import, but possibly obscure or not obvious.
- Extending to a level or length equivalent to the stated thing.
- Highly saturated; rich.
- Sound, heavy (describing a state of sleep from which one is not easily awoken).
- Of penetrating or far-reaching intellect; not superficial; thoroughly skilled; sagacious; cunning.
adv
- In a profound, not superficial, manner.
- In large volume.
- Back towards one's own goal, baseline, or similar.
- Far, especially far down through something or into something, physically or figuratively.
noun
adj
- Difficult to understand; complicated.
- Turned inward at the margin, like the exterior lip of the shells of species in genus Cypraea.
- Having a complex pattern of coils in which younger whorls only partly surround older ones.
- Rolled inward spirally.
- Having the edges rolled with the adaxial side outward.
verb
noun
adj
- Difficult to understand, or poorly articulated.
- Heavy in build; thickset.
- Densely crowded or packed.
- Relatively great in extent from one surface to the opposite in its smallest solid dimension.
- Having a viscous consistency.
- Detailed and expansive; substantive.
- Stupid.
- Friendly or intimate.
- Curvy and voluptuous, and especially having large hips.
- Impenetrable to sight.
- Deep, intense, or profound.
- Measuring a certain number of units in this dimension.
- Greatly evocative of one's nationality or place of origin.
- Abounding in number.
noun
adv
adj
- Obscure, or difficult to understand.
- Opaque; allowing little light to pass through.
- Thick; difficult to penetrate.
- Slow to comprehend; of low intelligence.
- Having relatively high density.
- Compact; crowded together.
- Being a subset of a topological space that approximates the space well. See the Wikipedia article on dense sets for a mathematical definition.
noun
verb
- comprehend
- make physical contact with, come in contact with
- perceive via the tactile sense
- affect emotionally
- be relevant to
- be in direct physical contact with; make contact
- have an effect upon
- deal with; usually used with a form of negation
- cause to be in brief contact with
- to extend as far as
- be equal to in quality or ability
- tamper with
- make a more or less disguised reference to
- consume
- color lightly
noun
- the event of something coming in contact with the body
- the faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands)
- a suggestion of some quality
- a distinguishing style
- the act of putting two things together with no space between them
- a slight but appreciable amount
- a communicative interaction
- a slight attack of illness
- the act of soliciting money (as a gift or loan)
- the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin
- deftness in handling matters
- the feel of mechanical action
verb
- To achieve understanding of, despite some obstacle; to comprehend; to understand.
- To enter into; to make way into the interior of; to pierce.
- To move a piece past the defending pieces of one's opponent.
- To affect profoundly through the senses or feelings; to move deeply.
- To insert the penis into an opening, such as a vagina, mouth or anus.
- To infiltrate an enemy to gather intelligence.
adv
- In a manner which is difficult to understand, or which retards or prevents understanding; incomprehensibly
- With a dark appearance
- In a manner which is not readily visible or noticeable; inconspicuously
- In a manner which retards or prevents discernment; clandestinely
- With insufficient light for easy discernment or comprehension
- In a morbid manner; morbidly, sinisterly
- In a manner which tends to produce uncertainty or confusion; bewilderingly
- In a manner which produces an inward conviction of future misfortune; ominously
adj
verb
- be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by
- run away from confinement
- fail to experience
- escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action
- remove oneself from a familiar environment, usually for pleasure or diversion
- flee; take to one's heels; cut and run
- issue or leak, as from a small opening
noun
- the act of escaping physically
- an inclination to retreat from unpleasant realities through diversion or fantasy
- nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do
- an avoidance of danger or difficulty
- a means or way of escaping
- a plant originally cultivated but now growing wild
- the discharge of a fluid from some container
- a valve in a container in which pressure can build up (as a steam boiler); it opens automatically when the pressure reaches a dangerous level
noun
adj
- Not clearly defined, grasped, or understood; indistinct; slight.
- Not clearly felt or sensed; somewhat subconscious.
- Lacking expression; vacant.
- Not having a precise meaning.
- Not thinking or expressing one’s thoughts clearly or precisely.
- Not sharply outlined; hazy.
- Not clearly expressed; stated in indefinite terms.
- Wandering; vagrant; vagabond.
noun
verb
verb
- To absorb or comprehend.
- To allow a person or an animal to live in one's home.
- To receive (goods) into one's home for the purpose of processing for a fee.
- To enjoy or appreciate.
- To deceive; to hoodwink.
- To tighten (a belaying rope). (Also take up.)
- To shorten (a garment) or make it smaller.
- To attend a showing of.
- To reef.
abbrev
noun
- an intellectual hold or understanding
- the act of grasping
- the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it
- a portable rectangular container for carrying clothes
- the friction between a body and the surface on which it moves (as between an automobile tire and the road)
- worker who moves the camera around while a film or television show is being made
- a flat wire hairpin whose prongs press tightly together; used to hold bobbed hair in place
verb
adj
- More complex or confusing than one can understand; beyond one’s comprehension.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see over, head.
- More than one can handle; too much (especially in over one's head).
- Performing at a level greatly superior to one's usual level of performance.
- Directed to someone with authority over the person, so as to avoid requiring the approval of the person himself or herself.
verb
- To learn, to grasp; to begin to understand; to realize.
- To acquire (something) accidentally; to catch (a disease).
- To collect and detain (a suspect).
- To lift; to grasp and raise.
- To clean up; to return to an organized state.
- To point out the behaviour, habits, or actions of (a person) in a critical manner; used with on.
- To meet and seduce somebody for romantic purposes, especially in a social situation.
- To receive calls; to function correctly.
- To record; to notch up.
- To promote somebody who was previously passed over.
- To collect an object, especially in passing.
- To answer a telephone.
- To take control (physically) of something.
- To mark, to defend against an opposition player by following them closely.
- To behave in a manner that results in a foul.
- To restart or resume.
- To receive (a radio signal or the like).
- To notice, detect or discern; to pick up on
- To improve, increase, or speed up.
- To reduce the despondency of.
- To pay for.
- To obtain and publish a story, news item, etc.
- To collect a passenger.
noun
- A grip, understanding.
- A mass of hanging material.
- A slackening of motion.
- He got the hang of it after only two demonstrations.
- A hangout.
- A person that someone hangs out with.
- Cheap processed ham (cured pork), often made specially for sandwiches.
- An instance of ceasing to respond to input.
- A sharp or steep declivity or slope.
- The smallest amount of concern or consideration; a damn.
- The way in which something hangs.
verb
- To decorate (something) with hanging objects.
- To kill (someone) by suspension from the neck, usually as a form of execution or suicide.
- To float, as if suspended.
- To attach or cause to stick (a charge or accusation, etc.).
- To loiter; to hang around; to spend time idly.
- To throw a hittable off-speed pitch.
- To remain persistently in one's thoughts.
- To be or remain suspended.
- To veer in one direction.
- To exhibit (an object) by hanging.
- To apply (wallpaper or drywall to a wall).
- To prevent from reaching a decision, especially by refusing to join in a verdict that must be unanimous.
- To rebound unexpectedly or unusually slowly, due to backward spin on the ball or imperfections of the ground.
- To cause (a piece) to become vulnerable to capture.
- To hold or bear in a suspended or inclined manner or position instead of erect.
- To be vulnerable to capture.
- To be executed by suspension by one's neck from a gallows, a tree, or other raised bar, attached by a rope tied into a noose.
- To stop responding to manual input devices such as the keyboard and mouse.
- To cause (something) to be suspended, as from a hook, hanger, hinges, or the like.
- (used in maledictions) To damn.
- To cause (a program or computer) to stop responding.
verb
- To grasp mentally: perceive and understand.
- To attract and hold (a faculty or organ of sense).
- To unpleasantly discover unexpectedly; to unpleasantly surprise (someone doing something).
- To acquire, as though by infection; to take on through sympathy or infection.
- To make a grasping or snatching motion (at).
- To take or replenish something necessary, such as breath or sleep.
- Of fire, to spread or be conveyed to.
- To be held back or impeded.
- To get pregnant.
- To end a player's innings by catching a hit ball before the first bounce.
- To be the victim of (something unpleasant, painful etc.).
- To entrap or trip up a person; to deceive.
- To reach (someone) with a strike, blow, weapon etc.
- To be hit by something.
- To receive or be affected by (wind, water, fire etc.).
- To have something be held back or impeded.
- To contact a wave in such a way that one can ride it back to shore.
- To travel by means of.
- To become infected by (an illness).
- To reproduce or echo a spirit or idea faithfully.
- To serve well or poorly for catching, especially for catching fish.
- To seize or intercept an object moving through the air (or, sometimes, some other medium).
- To grip (the water) with one's oars at the beginning of the stroke.
- To become pregnant. (Only in past tense or as participle.)
- To charm or entrance.
- To grip or entangle.
- To handle an exception.
- To play (a specific period of time) as the catcher.
- To spread by infection or similar means.
- To take in; to watch or listen to (an entertainment).
- To engage with some mechanism; to stick, to succeed in interacting with something or initiating some process.
- To capture or snare (someone or something which would rather escape).
- To germinate and set down roots.
- To be touched or affected by (something) through exposure.
- To overtake or catch up to; to be in time for.
noun
- The act of noticing, understanding or hearing.
- A crick; a sudden muscle pain during unaccustomed positioning when the muscle is in use.
- A stopping mechanism, especially a clasp which stops something from opening.
- The game of catching a ball.
- A hesitation in voice, caused by strong emotion.
- A find, in particular a boyfriend or girlfriend or prospective spouse.
- A fragment of music or poetry.
- The act of catching a hit ball before it reaches the ground, resulting in an out.
- Passing opportunities seized; snatches.
- The act of catching an object in motion, especially a ball.
- The act of seizing or capturing.
- A type of humorous round in which the voices gradually catch up with one another; usually sung by men and often having bawdy lyrics.
- A slight remembrance; a trace.
- A crop which has germinated and begun to grow.
- The first contact of an oar with the water.
- A concealed difficulty, especially in a deal or negotiation.
- A player in respect of his catching ability; particularly one who catches well.
- A stoppage of breath, resembling a slight cough.
- The refrain; a line or lines of a song which are repeated from verse to verse.
- Something which is captured or caught.
verb
- To comprehend.
- To instinctively be aware.
- To use biological senses: to either see, hear, smell, taste, or feel.
noun
- Perception through the intellect; apprehension; awareness.
- One of two opposite directions in which a vector (especially of motion) may point. See also polarity.
- A natural appreciation or ability.
- The way that a referent is presented.
- The meaning, reason, or value of something.
- A single conventional use of a word; one of the entries for a word in a dictionary.
- Sound practical or moral judgment.
- Any of the manners by which living beings perceive the physical world: for humans sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste.
- referring to the strand of a nucleic acid that directly specifies the product.
- One of two opposite directions of rotation, clockwise versus anti-clockwise.
- Any particular meaning of a word, among its various meanings.
verb
- To encumber with a literal or figurative burden.
- To impose, as a load or burden; to lay or place as a burden (something heavy or objectionable).
noun
- A phrase or theme that recurs at the end of each verse in a folk song or ballad.
- The proportion of ore and flux to fuel, in the charge of a blast furnace.
- The capacity of a vessel, or the weight of cargo that she will carry.
- A responsibility, onus.
- The tops or heads of stream-work which lie over the stream of tin.
- A fixed quantity of certain commodities.
- Theme, core idea.
- The drone of a bagpipe.
- A cause of worry; that which is grievous, wearisome, or oppressive.
- The total amount of toxins, parasites, cancer cells, plaque or similar present in an organism.
- A heavy load.
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