'Impalpable' definitions:
Definition of 'impalpable'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Incapable of being perceived by the senses especially the sense of touch; "the intangible constituent of energy"- James Jeans [syn: intangible, impalpable] [ant: tangible, touchable]
adjective
Imperceptible to the senses or the mind; "an impalpable cloud"; "impalpable shadows"; "impalpable distinctions"; "as impalpable as a dream" [ant: palpable, tangible]
adjective
Not perceptible to the touch; "an impalpable pulse"
Definition of 'Impalpable'
From: GCIDE
- Impalpable \Im*pal"pa*ble\, a. [Pref. im- not + palpable: cf. F. impalpable.]
- 1. Not palpable; that cannot be felt; extremely fine, so that no grit can be perceived by touch. "Impalpable powder." --Boyle. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Not material; intangible; incorporeal. "Impalpable, void, and bodiless." --Holland. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Not apprehensible, or readily apprehensible, by the mind; unreal; as, impalpable distinctions. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'impalpable'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- airy,
- asomatous,
- astral,
- atomic,
- bodiless,
- branny,
- chalklike,
- chalky,
- comminute,
- comminuted,
- corpuscular,
- crushed,
- decarnate,
- decarnated,
- detrital,
- detrited,
- discarnate,
- disembodied,
- disintegrated,
- dusty,
- efflorescent,
- embryonic,
- ethereal,
- evanescent,
- extramundane,
- farinaceous,
- fine,
- flaky,
- floury,
- furfuraceous,
- germinal,
- ghostly,
- gone to dust,
- granular,
- grated,
- ground,
- immaterial,
- imperceptible,
- imponderable,
- inappreciable,
- incorporate,
- incorporeal,
- indiscernible,
- infinitesimal,
- insensible,
- insubstantial,
- intangible,
- invisible,
- levigated,
- mealy,
- microcosmic,
- microscopic,
- milled,
- molecular,
- nonmaterial,
- nonphysical,
- nonsubstantial,
- occult,
- otherworldly,
- pestled,
- phantom,
- powdered,
- powdery,
- psychic,
- pulverant,
- pulverized,
- pulverulent,
- reduced to powder,
- scaly,
- scobicular,
- scobiform,
- scurfy,
- shadowy,
- sharded,
- shredded,
- spiritual,
- subatomic,
- supernatural,
- tenuous,
- thin,
- transmundane,
- triturated,
- ultramicroscopic,
- unapparent,
- unappreciable,
- unconcrete,
- unearthly,
- unembodied,
- unextended,
- unfleshly,
- unobservable,
- unperceivable,
- unphysical,
- unseeable,
- unsolid,
- unsubstanced,
- unsubstantial,
- unworldly,
- weightless