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impalpable a. 不可触知的,不能感知的,难解的 不可触知的,不能感知的,难解的 impalpable adj 1: incapable of being perceived by the senses especially the sense of touch; " the intangible constituent of energy"- James Jeans [ synonym: { intangible}, { impalpable}] [ ant: { tangible}, { touchable}] 2: imperceptible to the senses or the mind; " an impalpable cloud"; " impalpable shadows"; " impalpable distinctions"; " as impalpable as a dream" [ ant: { palpable}, { tangible}] 3: not perceptible to the touch; " an impalpable pulse" Impalpable \ Im* pal" pa* ble\, a. [ Pref. im- not palpable: cf. F. impalpable.] 1. Not palpable; that cannot be felt; extremely fine, so that no grit can be perceived by touch. " Impalpable powder." -- Boyle. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Not material; intangible; incorporeal. " Impalpable, void, and bodiless." -- Holland. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Not apprehensible, or readily apprehensible, by the mind; unreal; as, impalpable distinctions. [ 1913 Webster] 99 Moby Thesaurus words for " impalpable": airy, asomatous, astral, atomic, bodiless, branny, chalklike, chalky, comminute, comminuted, corpuscular, crushed, decarnate, decarnated, detrital, detrited, discarnate, disembodied, disintegrated, dusty, efflorescent, embryonic, ethereal, evanescent, extramundane, farinaceous, fine, flaky, floury, furfuraceous, germinal, ghostly, gone to dust, granular, grated, ground, immaterial, imperceptible, imponderable, inappreciable, incorporate, incorporeal, indiscernible, infinitesimal, insensible, insubstantial, intangible, invisible, levigated, mealy, microcosmic, microscopic, milled, molecular, nonmaterial, nonphysical, nonsubstantial, occult, otherworldly, pestled, phantom, powdered, powdery, psychic, pulverant, pulverized, pulverulent, reduced to powder, scaly, scobicular, scobiform, scurfy, shadowy, sharded, shredded, spiritual, subatomic, supernatural, tenuous, thin, transmundane, triturated, ultramicroscopic, unapparent, unappreciable, unconcrete, unearthly, unembodied, unextended, unfleshly, unobservable, unperceivable, unphysical, unseeable, unsolid, unsubstanced, unsubstantial, unworldly, weightless
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