grope for

1. 1.

   feel searchingly

   “She groped for his keys in the dark”

   Synonymsscrabble

   Broaderfeel

Questions about grope for

What does grope for mean?

grope for means "feel searchingly".

What is another word for grope for?

Close synonyms include scrabble. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is grope for a common word?

grope for is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.