English Explanatory Dictionary

grok

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To understand (something) intuitively, to know (something) without having to think intellectually.
  2. To fully and completely understand something in all of its details and intricacies.
name
  1. A generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed by xAI.
verb
  1. To use or create with the Grok chatbot.

Pronunciation

/ˈɡɹɒk/ /ˈɡɹɑk/ En-au-grok.ogg

Word forms

grok groks grokking groking grokked groked

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 Venus and the Seven Sexes (1949); Heinlein “looked startled, then thought about it for a long time (and) shrugged, (saying) ‘It's possible, very possible.’”

Related words

gurgle guttle

Derived words

Grok grokkable grokker groksucker Groktard

Translations

Chinese Mandarin: 精通 Esperanto: povoscii French: capter French: piger German: begreifen German: verstehen Italian: groccare Russian: гро́кать Russian: гро́кнуть Russian: шарить Serbo-Croatian: proniknuti Slovene: gročiti Spanish: pilotar Turkish: anlamak Turkish: kavramak
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