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imponderable
[ im-pon-der-uh-buhl ]
adjective
- not ponderable; that cannot be precisely determined, measured, or evaluated.
noun
- an imponderable thing, force, agency, etc.
imponderable
/ -drəbəl; ɪmˈpɒndərəbəl /
adjective
- unable to be weighed or assessed
noun
- something difficult or impossible to assess
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Derived Forms
- imˈponderably, adverb
- imˌponderaˈbility, noun
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Other Words From
- im·ponder·a·bili·ty im·ponder·a·ble·ness noun
- im·ponder·a·bly adverb
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Word History and Origins
Origin of imponderable1
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Example Sentences
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.
Every letter which came from the absent sister did inclose some imponderable unmounted photograph, with comments.
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?
It had simply affected his imagination, which was a consequence of the imponderable sort.
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