🔧 A gripping tool 🦀 A pincer or claw 🤲 A greedy person 🧠 A fast learner

grasper

1 4.6

A person who learns new things quickly

noun
/ˈɡræspər/

: persona que aprende rápido

He has always been a natural grasper, picking up languages with ease.

Examples

So this is not just a coherence theory of truth where the truth grasper sits back and just gets the totality.
She is a quick learner and a real grasper when it comes to new concepts.
In math class, he proved to be a grasper, solving problems faster than anyone else.

Synonyms

sponge

vsgrasper

13 7.0

A person who learns new things quickly and easily

learns quickly by understanding rather than mainly absorbing

quick study

vsgrasper

10 3.3

A person who learns new things quickly and easily

has identical meaning but is a different expression form

How Fast

prodigy

51 6.7

grasper

1 4.6

quick study

10 3.3

learner

76 1.0

slow study

Slur

1 7.2

Surface Forms

grasper singular

graspers plural

Morphology

grasper = grasp (transparent) = grasp + er

Formed by the productive suffix '-er' from the verb 'grasp' (understand), so the meaning 'one who understands quickly' is derivable.

Etymology

Grasper comes from the verb grasp, which also means 'to understand' (as in 'to grasp an idea'), so a grasper is someone who learns or understands things quickly.