ADJECTIVE
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capable of being thought about
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capable of being weighed or considered
something ponderable from the outer world--something of which we can say that its weight is so and so
How To Use ponderable 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.
- In these queries he still clings to the idea of Encke, that the resistance is confined to the neighborhood of the sun and planets, like a ponderable fluid. Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence
- Yet the whole itself must remain conjecture, as imponderable as accomplished facts or as forecasts of the future. Translated Texts
