Search Result for "imponderable":
Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1. a factor whose effects cannot be accurately assessed;
- Example: "human behavior depends on many imponderables"
ADJECTIVE (1)
1. difficult or impossible to evaluate with precision;
- Example: "such imponderable human factors as aesthetic sensibility"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Imponderable \Im*pon"der*a*ble\, a. [Pref. im- not + ponderable: cf. F. impond['e]rable.] Not ponderable; without sensible or appreciable weight; incapable of being weighed. [1913 Webster]The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Imponderable \Im*pon"der*a*ble\, n. (Physics) An imponderable substance or body; specifically, in the plural, a name formerly applied to heat, light, electricity, and magnetism, regarded as subtile fluids destitute of weight but in modern science little used. [1913 Webster]Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
69 Moby Thesaurus words for "imponderable": airy, asomatous, astral, atomic, bodiless, corpuscular, decarnate, decarnated, discarnate, disembodied, embryonic, ethereal, evanescent, extramundane, germinal, ghostly, granular, immaterial, impalpable, imperceptible, inappreciable, incomprehensible, inconceivable, incorporate, incorporeal, indiscernible, inestimable, infinitesimal, insensible, insubstantial, intangible, invisible, microcosmic, microscopic, molecular, nonmaterial, nonphysical, nonsubstantial, occult, otherworldly, phantom, psychic, shadowy, spiritual, subatomic, subtle, supernatural, tenuous, thin, transmundane, ultramicroscopic, unapparent, unappreciable, unconcrete, unearthly, unembodied, unextended, unfleshly, unmeasurable, unobservable, unperceivable, unphysical, unseeable, unsolid, unsubstanced, unsubstantial, unweighable, unworldly, weightless
