Impalpable

Quick meaning: Impalpable is an adjective meaning Incapable of being touched or felt; incorporeal, intangible.

Meaning

Incapable of being touched or felt; incorporeal, intangible.

More Meanings

1. Not able to be perceived, or able to be perceived only with difficulty; insubstantial, thin.
2. Not easily grasped (mentally) or understood.

Example Sentences

What is happiness, anyhow? Is this one of its hours, or the like of it?—so impalpable—a mere breath, an evanescent tinge?

But here thou canst not handle aught, neither make the folk ware of thee, not though thou shout thy throat hoarse. For thou and I walk here impalpable and invisible, as it were two dreams walking.

She had an extraordinary sensitiveness to the impalpable elements of happiness, and as she walked at Darrow’s side her imagination flew back and forth, spinning luminous webs of feeling between herself and the scene about her.

On the benches lay figures covered with yellow linen, on which a fine and impalpable dust had gathered in the course of ages, but nothing like to the extent that one would have anticipated, for in these deep-hewn caves there is no material to turn to dust.

Synonyms for impalpable

Depending on context, synonyms include elusive, subtle, intangible, imperceptible, unperceivable.

Antonyms for impalpable

Common opposites include tangible, palpable, chair, preside.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include intangible, unperceivable, imperceptible, subtle, elusive, unpalpable.

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