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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Imponderable \Im*pon"der*a*ble\, adjective [Pref. im- not + ponderable: cf. F. impond['e]rable.] Not ponderable; without sensible or appreciable weight; incapable of being weighed.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Imponderable \Im*pon"der*a*ble\, noun (Physics) An imponderable substance or body; specifically, in the plural, a name formerly applied to heat, light, electricity, and magnetism, regarded as subtile fluids destitute of weight but in modern science little used.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
imponderable
adjective: difficult or impossible to evaluate with precision; "such imponderable human factors as aesthetic sensibility" [ant: {ponderable}]
noun: a factor whose effects cannot be accurately assessed; "human behavior depends on many imponderables"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
69 Moby Thesaurus words for "imponderable": airy, asomatous, astral, atomic, bodiless, corpuscular, decarnate, decarnated, discarnate, disembodied, embryonic, ethereal, evanescent, extramundane, germinal, ghostly, granular, immaterial, impalpable, imperceptible, inappreciable, incomprehensible, inconceivable, incorporate, incorporeal, indiscernible, inestimable, infinitesimal, insensible, insubstantial, intangible, invisible, microcosmic, microscopic, molecular, nonmaterial, nonphysical, nonsubstantial, occult, otherworldly, phantom, psychic, shadowy, spiritual, subatomic, subtle, supernatural, tenuous, thin, transmundane, ultramicroscopic, unapparent, unappreciable, unconcrete, unearthly, unembodied, unextended, unfleshly, unmeasurable, unobservable, unperceivable, unphysical, unseeable, unsolid, unsubstanced, unsubstantial, unweighable, unworldly, weightless
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