| 单词 | imponderable |
| 释义 | imponderable (once / 16038 pages) adjn Imponderable describes a situation that isn't able to be completely explained. "Where did we come from?" is one of those imponderable questions that defy human's ability for understanding. If something is ponderable, it is capable of being assessed or weighed; stick im- in front and you get the opposite effect. Use imponderable to describe something that is elusive and vague, perhaps even evasive. When your question doesn't have a definitive answer, you are in imponderable territory: "Life has many imponderable questions, such as why you park in a driveway and drive on parkway." WORD FAMILYimponderable: imponderables, imponderably+/ponder: ponderable, pondered, ponderer, pondering, ponders/ponderable: imponderable, ponderably/ponderer: ponderers/pondering: ponderingly USAGE EXAMPLESHer United Parcel Service Inc. driver showed up so often to her New Hampshire home that her 8-year-old daughter started pondering the imponderable. Wall Street Journal(Dec 23, 2016) As the world started to ponder the imponderables of the coming Donald Trump Administration, the U.F.C. had reason to cheer. The New Yorker(Nov 11, 2016) The planning is thorough, the intentions are good, but there are many imponderables. BBC(Oct 23, 2016) 1adj difficult or impossible to evaluate with precision such imponderable human factors as aesthetic sensibility Ant ponderable capable of being weighed or considered assessablecapable of being considered carefully 2n a factor whose effects cannot be accurately assessed human behavior depends on many imponderables Hypo|Hyper leaven, leavening an influence that works subtly to lighten or modify something influence a cognitive factor that tends to have an effect on what you do |
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