Imponderable

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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]



From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  imponderable
       adj : difficult or impossible to evaluate with precision; "such
             imponderable human factors as aesthetic sensibility"
             [ant: {ponderable}]
       n : a factor whose effects cannot be accurately assessed; "human
           behavior depends on many imponderables"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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