Definition of "imponderable" [im•pon•der•a•ble]

• That cannot undergo precise evaluation: imponderable problems. (adjective)

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• "We have no knowledge that the luminiferous ether is attracted by gravity; it is sometimes called imponderable because some people vainly imagine that it has no weight; I call it matter with the same kind of rigidity that this elastic jelly has."
• "In effect, then, the physicist has dispossessed the many imponderables in favor of a single imponderable -- though the word imponderable has been banished from his vocabulary."
• "There are far too many factors-too many that are "imponderable" - whose weight just cannot be estimated."