Thesaurus / impalpable
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To address Fleurette, impalpable creation of fairyland, as “old girl” was particularly distasteful.
THE JOYOUS ADVENTURES OF ARISTIDE PUJOLWILLIAM J. LOCKEAs he swept his long arms, as though brushing aside some impalpable obstacle, the wolves fell back and back further still.
DRACULABRAM STOKERBut it would see me mix it with the water; and then, would our poisons have any effect on its impalpable body?
MASTERPIECES OF MYSTERY, VOL. 1 (OF 4)VARIOUSLike a universe-filling, soft, impalpable dust it slowly sifted over me, bearing me under.
TRAMPING ON LIFEHARRY KEMPAs an impalpable flake is the beginning of an avalanche, so an imprudence is often the prelude to a great crime.
FILE NO. 113EMILE GABORIAUEndemics of abortion depend on the impalpable vapors that arise from the quicksilver mines of Spain.
THE EDUCATION OF AMERICAN GIRLSANNA CALLENDER BRACKETTI approached at first with the utmost precaution, in order to examine the sand, and found it to be almost impalpable.
THE DESERT WORLDARTHUR MANGINThe pall of the black squalor had been tightening about the girl's heart like an impalpable constrictor and almost strangling it.
THE CODE OF THE MOUNTAINSCHARLES NEVILLE BUCKThe sides and bottom of the chamber were coated with impalpable powder, of smoke colour.
ON SOME ANCIENT BATTLE-FIELDS IN LANCASHIRECHARLES HARDWICKIt peeped in boldly, stirring up myriads of impalpable atoms and whipping them into a living line of silver.
"UNTO CAESAR"BARONESS EMMUSKA ORCZYWORDS RELATED TO IMPALPABLE
- ephemeral
- evanescent
- fine
- gradual
- impalpable
- imponderable
- inappreciable
- inaudible
- inconsiderable
- inconspicuous
- indiscernible
- indistinct
- indistinguishable
- infinitesimal
- insensible
- insignificant
- intangible
- invisible
- microscopic
- minute
- momentary
- shadowy
- slight
- small
- subtle
- tiny
- trivial
- undetectable
- unobservable
- vague
- ephemeral
- evanescent
- fine
- gradual
- impalpable
- imponderable
- inappreciable
- inaudible
- inconsiderable
- inconspicuous
- indiscernible
- indistinct
- indistinguishable
- infinitesimal
- insensible
- insignificant
- intangible
- invisible
- microscopic
- minute
- momentary
- shadowy
- slight
- small
- subtle
- tiny
- trivial
- undetectable
- unnoticeable
- vague
- aerial
- artificial
- chimerical
- delusive
- dreamlike
- fabled
- fabulous
- false
- fanciful
- fictitious
- fictive
- figmental
- hallucinatory
- ideal
- illusory
- imaginary
- imagined
- immaterial
- impalpable
- insincere
- insubstantial
- intangible
- invented
- legendary
- misleading
- mock
- mythical
- nebulous
- nonexistent
- notional
- ostensible
- phantasmagoric
- pretended
- seeming
- sham
- storybook
- suppositious
- supposititious
- theoretical
- unbelievable
- unsubstantial
- visionary
- ambiguous
- amorphous
- amphibological
- bewildering
- bleary
- blurred
- cloudy
- dark
- dim
- doubtful
- dreamlike
- dubious
- enigmatic
- equivocal
- faint
- fuzzy
- generalized
- hazy
- ill-defined
- impalpable
- imprecise
- indefinite
- indeterminate
- indistinct
- inexplicable
- lax
- loose
- misunderstood
- muddy
- nebulous
- obscure
- perplexing
- problematic
- puzzling
- questionable
- shadowy
- superficial
- tenebrous
- uncertain
- unclear
- undetermined
- unexplicit
- unintelligible
- unknown
- unsettled
- unspecified
- unsure
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