imponderable
not ponderable; that cannot be precisely determined, measured, or evaluated.
an imponderable thing, force, agency, etc.
Origin of imponderable
1Other words from imponderable
- im·pon·der·a·bil·i·ty, im·pon·der·a·ble·ness, noun
- im·pon·der·a·bly, adverb
Words Nearby imponderable
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How to use imponderable in a sentence
Descartes suggested a nearly imponderable solution, in which motion is just a shifting of the relative positions of objects, and the invisible object that we call space, along their shared surfaces.
What Warhol gives us is magnificently imponderable, as normal things (such as urinals) are in the world.
There were, Caro said, regions of ether too subtle to sustain even so imponderable a poet as Mr. Prothero.
The Creators | May SinclairEvery letter which came from the absent sister did inclose some imponderable unmounted photograph, with comments.
Girls and Women | Harriet E. Paine (AKA E. Chester}We are in the present day upon the trace of a great many important facts relating to the imponderable agencies employed in nature.
Is or is not that which is called magnetic effluvia a something, a stuff or a substance, invisible and imponderable though it be?
Reincarnation | Th. PascalIt had simply affected his imagination, which was a consequence of the imponderable sort.
Confidence | Henry James
British Dictionary definitions for imponderable
/ (ɪmˈpɒndərəbəl, -drəbəl) /
unable to be weighed or assessed
something difficult or impossible to assess
Derived forms of imponderable
- imponderability or imponderableness, noun
- imponderably, adverb
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