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.
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2. Not material; intangible; incorporeal. "Impalpable, void,
and bodiless." --Holland.
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3. Not apprehensible, or readily apprehensible, by the mind;
unreal; as, impalpable distinctions.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
impalpable
adj 1: incapable of being perceived by the senses especially the
sense of touch; "the intangible constituent of
energy"- James Jeans [syn: intangible] [ant: tangible]
2: imperceptible to the senses or the mind; "an impalpable
cloud"; "impalpable shadows"; "impalpable distinctions";
"as impalpable as a dream" [ant: palpable]
3: not perceptible to the touch; "an impalpable pulse"
WordNet (r) 2.0
99 Moby Thesaurus words for "impalpable":
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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