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imponderable

[ UK /ɪmpˈɒndəɹəbə‍l/ ]
[ US /ˌɪmˈpɑndɝəbəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. difficult or impossible to evaluate with precision
    such imponderable human factors as aesthetic sensibility
NOUN
  1. a factor whose effects cannot be accurately assessed
    human behavior depends on many imponderables

How To Use imponderable In A Sentence

  • These are all imponderables and much of it is down to luck in running, in the words of that immortal phrase.
  • In dealing with the Soviet Union, in trying to analyze its objectives and capabilities, we continue to tread, as George Kennan wrote in his diary in 1950, “in the unfirm substance of the imponderables.” Interpretations of American History
  • It did not allow enough for what we may call the imponderable elements. The Unity of Civilization
  • The ghost of a gist of an explanation for at least a few previously impenetrable imponderables began to agglutinate amongthe eddies of the Inspector's thoughts. The Mocking Program
  • That didn't stop him lying awake on Monday and Tuesday night pondering the imponderables.
  • The effect of his new method is imponderable.
  • There are so many questions, imponderables and what-ifs.
  • Ricks' piece in the Post suggests that there are too many imponderables to predict at this point how these developments will play out.
  • Yet the whole itself must remain conjecture, as imponderable as accomplished facts or as forecasts of the future. Translated Texts
  • Those sorts of imponderables do occasionally impinge, but not often.
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