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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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

Dictionary Results for imponderable:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

imponderable
    adj 1: difficult or impossible to evaluate with precision; "such
           imponderable human factors as aesthetic sensibility"
           [ant: ponderable]
    n 1: a factor whose effects cannot be accurately assessed;
         "human behavior depends on many imponderables"

2. 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]

3. 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]

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