verb
- past tense of grok; to understand something intuitively or by empathy, often at a deep or complete level
Usage: informal; originally from science fiction; now widely used in tech and general contexts
Examples
- After reading the manual three times, I finally grokked how the software worked.
- She grokked the emotional subtext of the poem immediately.
- The team grokked the client's needs without explicit explanation.
- Once you grokked the underlying principle, the rest became easy.
- He grokked the problem so deeply that he could predict all edge cases.
- I didn't grok it at first, but after the presentation, I grokked the whole concept.