grok

(redirected from grokked)
Also found in: Thesaurus, Idioms, Encyclopedia.

grok

 (grŏk)
tr.v. grok·ked, grok·king, groks Slang
To understand profoundly through intuition or empathy.
[Coined by Robert A. Heinlein in his Stranger in a Strange Land.]
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

grok

(ɡrɒk)
vb
to understand completely and intuitively
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

grok

(grɒk)
v. grokked, grok•king. Slang. v.t.
1. to understand thoroughly and intuitively.
v.i.
2. to communicate sympathetically.
[coined by Robert A. Heinlein in the science-fiction novel Stranger in a Strange Land (1961)]
Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.
ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Verb1.grok - get the meaning of somethinggrok - get the meaning of something; "Do you comprehend the meaning of this letter?"
apprehend, comprehend, get the picture, savvy, grasp, compass, dig
understand - know and comprehend the nature or meaning of; "She did not understand her husband"; "I understand what she means"
figure - understand; "He didn't figure her"
catch on, cotton on, get it, get onto, get wise, twig, latch on, tumble - understand, usually after some initial difficulty; "She didn't know what her classmates were plotting but finally caught on"
intuit - know or grasp by intuition or feeling
digest - arrange and integrate in the mind; "I cannot digest all this information"
Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003-2012 Princeton University, Farlex Inc.
Mentioned in ?
References in periodicals archive ?
The requirements for the tool itself include being lightweight, "available to engineers in their current workflow," and "grokked in seconds." To do that, continues Kyriakidis, QVscribe turns "syntactic weaknesses into strengths using a visual grading system powered by NLP."
Making the analysis of requirements documents easier: natural language processing is good enough to take out a lot of the drudge work in creating, reviewing and revising requirements documents
"We thought," they acknowledged in their foreward to this year's paperback edition, "that more Americans, especially the earnest ones who fill our city halls, statehouses, and federal legislature, more fully grokked the unsustainability of the twenty-first century's endless spending increases." Federal spending alone, they note, had risen, in constant 2005 dollars, from $1.85 trillion in 1991 to $2.1 trillion in 2001 to $3.1 trillion in 2010.
Independents, Not Dependents: These pundits tell why they are cheering despite the lousy economy and the increased dissatisfaction voters find with the Democratic and Republican Parties
If you remember the '70s, or ever went to a Grateful Dead concert, or have visited Amsterdam, you've been there, grokked that.
Two decades of peace, love, and marijuana: every August since 1991, Seattle Hempfest has shown what the world will be like when pot is legal

Dictionary browser ?
Full browser ?