groping (adj.)

• analytic
• awkward
• callow
• dumb
• empty
• empty-headed
• examining
• explorative
• exploratory
• fact-finding
• feeling
• gauche
• green
• heuristic
• ignorant
• inane
• inexperienced
• innocent
• investigative
• investigatory
• naive
• nescient
• raw
• simple
• tentative
• trying
• unacquainted
• uncomprehending
• unenlightened
• unfamiliar
• unilluminated
• uninformed
• uninitiated
• unintelligent
• unknowing
• unripe
• unsure
• unversed
• vacuous