Ponderable

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Having a detectable amount of matter; having a measurable mass.

    "[T]he imponderability of heat did not appear to the philosophers of the eighteenth century to be a sufficient reason for excluding it from the list of chemical elements; and... there was... doubt... whether caloric was ponderable or not."

  2. 2
    Worthy of note; significant, interesting.
  3. 3
    Heavy; ponderous. rare

    "The very mother's head you swore by in the dock is a heavier head, crowned with ponderable hair."

Adjective
  1. 1
    capable of being weighed or considered wordnet
  2. 2
    capable of being thought about wordnet

Synonyms

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massiveapparentappreciableassessablecogitablecogitable

Example

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"[T]he imponderability of heat did not appear to the philosophers of the eighteenth century to be a sufficient reason for excluding it from the list of chemical elements; and... there was... doubt... whether caloric was ponderable or not."

Etymology

From ponder + -able.

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