grok

Signification (Anglais)

1. (slang, transitive) To understand (something) intuitively, to know (something) without having to think intellectually.
2. (slang, transitive) To fully and completely understand something in all of its details and intricacies.

Concepts

piger

capter

comprendre

saisir

appréhender

prendre conscience de

gnoquer

Synonymes

apprehend

comprehend

savvy

grasp

compass

🧭

dig

get the picture

understand

pick things up

cotton on

get it

know

notice

realise

see

👀

twig

Traductions

verstehen

begreifen

schnallen

kapieren

entender

entender

comprendre

comprender

erfassen

comprendere

raffen

checken

capire

compreender

groccare

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈɡɹɒk/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Coined by American author and aeronautical engineer Robert A. Heinlein in 1961 in his novel Stranger in a Strange Land. Heinlein invented the word for his fictitious Martian language. It is described as meaning “to drink” and, figuratively, “to drink in all available aspects of reality”, “to become one with the observed”. William Tenn later asked Heinlein if it could have been inspired by the term griggo, which featured in Tenn's 1949 Venus and the Seven Sexes; Heinlein “looked startled, then thought about it for a long time (and) shrugged, (saying) ‘It's possible, very possible.’”