'Imponderable' definitions:
Definition of 'imponderable'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Difficult or impossible to evaluate with precision; "such imponderable human factors as aesthetic sensibility" [ant: ponderable]
noun
A factor whose effects cannot be accurately assessed; "human behavior depends on many imponderables"
Definition of 'Imponderable'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Definition of 'Imponderable'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Synonyms of 'imponderable'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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