ungrasped

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English[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

un- +‎ grasped

Adjective[edit]

ungrasped (not comparable)

  1. Not grasped.
    • 1851, Sam G. Goodrich, Poems[1]:
      And if perchance some fleeting memories steal, Like far-off echoes to my dreaming ear, Away, ungrasped, the cheating visions wheel, As spectres start upon the wing of fear.
    • 1910, Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, Shining Ferry[2]:
      All his life he had been hurrying desperately, and all his life the true moments had offered themselves and been left ungrasped.

Etymology 2[edit]

ungrasp +‎ -ed

Verb[edit]

ungrasped

  1. simple past and past participle of ungrasp