grok
Verb
- get the meaning of something
- To understand (something) intuitively, to know (something) without having to think intellectually.
- To fully and completely understand something in all of its details and intricacies.
Examples
- I finally grok Perl.
- I find it exceedingly doubtful that any person groks quantum mechanics.
Origin / Etymology
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.’”
Scrabble Score: 9
grok: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordgrok: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
grok: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 10
grok: valid Words With Friends Word