Meaning

Incapable of being touched or felt; incorporeal, intangible..

Definitions by Sense

1. Incapable of being touched or felt; incorporeal, intangible.
2. Not able to be perceived, or able to be perceived only with difficulty; insubstantial, thin.
3. Not easily grasped (mentally) or understood.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

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

And I heard—him—it—this voice—other voices—all of them were so little more than voices—and the memory of that time itself lingers around me, impalpable, like a dying vibration of one immense jabber, silly, atrocious, sordid, savage, or simply mean, without any kind of sense.

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.

Word Forms

• more impalpable
• most impalpable

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Use impalpable when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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