grokとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹɒk/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹɑk/
• 韻: -ɒk

動詞

grok (三人称単数 現在形 groks, 現在分詞 grokking または groking, 過去形および過去分詞形 grokked または groked)

1. (transitive, slang) To understand (something) intuitively, to know (something) without having to think intellectually.

   Troponym: subitize

   • 1961, Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land, New York: Avon, →OCLC, page 106:

     I do not grok all fullness of what I read. In the history written by Master William Shakespeare I found myself full of happiness at the death of Romeo. Then I read on and learned that he had discorporated too soon – or so I thought I grokked. Why?

   • 1968, Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, →ISBN:

     Grok―and then it's clear, without anybody having to say it.

   • [2008 December, Leslie Anthony, “Running from Babylon”, in Skiing, volume 61, number 4, page 116:

     He freely plucks notions and verbiage from science fiction to describe everything from mountain-related undertakings to political subterfuge – like "grok", a term from Robert Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land, to denote intuitive understanding.]

   • 2018 August 2, Kara Swisher, “The Expensive Education of Mark Zuckerberg and Silicon Valley”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Because what he never managed to grok then was that the company he created was destined to become a template for all of humanity, the digital reflection of masses of people across the globe. Including — and especially — the bad ones.

2. (transitive, slang) To fully and completely understand something in all of its details and intricacies.

   I finally grok Perl.

   I find it exceedingly doubtful that any person groks quantum mechanics.

   • 2008 August, Stanley Bing, “New Help for Hodads”, in Fortune, volume 158, number 3, page 152:

     Today we take a few moments to help you grok some of the ways that victims of TU can up their hipness – if we may use that term without being considered old school.

使用する際の注意点

Grok is used mainly by the geek subculture, though it was heavily used by the counterculture of the 1960s, as evidenced by its repeated appearance in Tom Wolfe's “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.”

派生した語

• → French: gnoquer
• → Italian: groccare
• → Russian: гро́кать (grókatʹ)
• → Russian: гро́кнуть (gróknutʹ)
• → Slovene: gročiti
• → Turkish: groklamak

参照

Further reading

• grok on Wikipedia.
• Heinlein Society

アナグラム

• gork