ADJECTIVE
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imperceptible to the senses or the mind
as impalpable as a dream
impalpable distinctions
an impalpable cloud
impalpable shadows -
incapable of being perceived by the senses especially the sense of touch
the intangible constituent of energy -
not perceptible to the touch
an impalpable pulse
How To Use impalpable In A Sentence
- And though you could not mark the delicacies of faces, you could have the full effect of costumes, -- rich, majestic, floating, gossamery, impalpable. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863
- Hypothermia may render the carotid pulse impalpable, but it is important not to start chest compression without evidence of cardiac arrest.
- as impalpable as a dream
- Bold choices are attenuated by combination with impalpable chiffon.
- But how do you put a price on what we sell, which is more impalpable, insidious, sad and empty than the decay that you read here?
- Yet the apparent paradox of associating touch with something that is intangible and impalpable is not as odd as it might seem.
- Not that I would mind selling millions of books to people with impalpable senses of humor, but I've actually been reading his column to find out which clichés and bad jokes to avoid.
- an impalpable pulse
- The very construction of his native constituency that permeates "the human form divine" involve those agitative and sleepless precipitants that ever stir, stimulate, and woo him on to investigate, to weigh, and measure principles of the universe that draw his chariot from the individual center to the impalpable periphery. Autobiography, sermons, addresses, and essays of Bishop L. H. Holsey, D. D.,
- Hypothermia may render the carotid pulse impalpable, but it is important not to start chest compression without evidence of cardiac arrest.
