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imponderous, a. rare.|ɪmˈpɒndərəs|
[f. im-2 + ponderous.]
Without weight; imponderable.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. ii. v. 86 They produce visible and reall effects by imponderous and invisible emissions. 1798Monthly Rev. XXVI. 560. 1827 Carlyle Germ. Lit. in Misc. Ess. (1872) I. 24 Motion in vacuo is well known to be speedier and surer than through a resisting medium, especially to imponderous bodies. 1891Leisure Hour Feb. 235/2 Those moral sureties which belong to the category of imponderous but important things.
b. loosely. Having no appreciable weight; ‘weightless’; extremely light.
1851Carlyle Sterling iii. v. 206 Deluges of scoriae, ashes and imponderous pumice-stones. 1858― Fredk. Gt. ii. xiv. (1872) I. 127 Like an imponderous rag of conspicuous colour.
Hence imˈponderousness (Craig, 1847). |