Thesaurus / imponderable
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Descartes suggested a nearly imponderable solution, in which motion is just a shifting of the relative positions of objects, and the invisible object that we call space, along their shared surfaces.
WE HAVE TO TALK ABOUT DOUBT - ISSUE 104: HARMONYDAVID KRAKAUERSEPTEMBER 1, 2021NAUTILUSThere were, Caro said, regions of ether too subtle to sustain even so imponderable a poet as Mr. Prothero.
THE CREATORSMAY SINCLAIREvery letter which came from the absent sister did inclose some imponderable unmounted photograph, with comments.
GIRLS AND WOMENHARRIET E. PAINE (AKA E. CHESTER}We are in the present day upon the trace of a great many important facts relating to the imponderable agencies employed in nature.
THE INTERNATIONAL MONTHLY, VOLUME 5, NO. 3, MARCH, 1852VARIOUSIs or is not that which is called magnetic effluvia a something, a stuff or a substance, invisible and imponderable though it be?
REINCARNATIONTH. PASCALIt had simply affected his imagination, which was a consequence of the imponderable sort.
CONFIDENCEHENRY JAMESThe study of ether, or imponderable matter, pertains principally to physics.
THE RIDDLE OF THE UNIVERSE AT THE CLOSE OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURYERNST HAECKELThe moon appeared just clear of the lofty parapet of the well, and poured down to us an imponderable rarity of bluish fire.
THE SEA AND THE JUNGLEH. M. TOMLINSONSo mental action may be imponderable, intangible, and yet a real existence, and ruled by the Eternal through his laws.
VESTIGES OF THE NATURAL HISTORY OF CREATIONROBERT CHAMBERSJustine Brent had one of those imponderable bodies that seem a mere pinch of matter shot through with light and colour.
THE FRUIT OF THE TREEEDITH WHARTONWORDS RELATED TO IMPONDERABLE
- airy
- buoyant
- capricious
- effervescent
- elastic
- elusive
- ephemeral
- erratic
- expansive
- fickle
- fleeting
- flighty
- flippant
- frivolous
- fugacious
- fugitive
- gaseous
- gay
- giddy
- impermanent
- imponderable
- inconsistent
- inconstant
- light
- lively
- lubricious
- mercurial
- momentary
- playful
- resilient
- short-lived
- sprightly
- subtle
- temperamental
- ticklish
- transient
- transitory
- unsettled
- unstable
- unsteady
- up-and-down
- vaporous
- variable
- whimsical
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