'Groping' definitions:
Definition of 'groping'
From: WordNet
adjective
Acting with uncertainty or hesitance or lack of confidence; "a groping effort to understand"
Definition of 'Groping'
From: GCIDE
- Grope \Grope\ (gr[=o]p), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Groped (gr[=o]pt); p. pr. & vb. n. Groping.] [OE. gropen, gropien, grapien, AS. gr[=a]pian to touch, grope, fr. gr[imac]pan to gripe. See Gripe.]
- 1. To feel with or use the hands; to handle. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- 2. To search or attempt to find something in the dark, or, as a blind person, by feeling; to move about hesitatingly, as in darkness or obscurity; to feel one's way, as with the hands, when one can not see. [1913 Webster]
- We grope for the wall like the blind. --Is. lix. 10. [1913 Webster]
- To grope a little longer among the miseries and sensualities ot a worldly life. --Buckminster. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'groping'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- analytic,
- awkward,
- blankminded,
- callow,
- dumb,
- empty,
- empty-headed,
- examinational,
- examinatorial,
- examining,
- explorational,
- explorative,
- exploratory,
- fact-finding,
- feeling,
- gauche,
- green,
- heuristic,
- ignorant,
- inane,
- indagative,
- inexperienced,
- innocent,
- inspectional,
- inspectorial,
- investigational,
- investigative,
- investigatory,
- know-nothing,
- naive,
- nescient,
- raw,
- simple,
- strange to,
- tentative,
- testing,
- trying,
- unacquainted,
- unapprized,
- uncomprehending,
- unconversant,
- unenlightened,
- unfamiliar,
- unilluminated,
- uninformed,
- uninitiated,
- unintelligent,
- unknowing,
- unposted,
- unripe,
- unsure,
- unversed,
- vacuous,
- zetetic