Definitions for impalpable

impalpable im·pal·pa·ble

Spelling: [im-pal-puh-buh l]
IPA: /ɪmˈpæl pə bəl/

Impalpable is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 24 points.

You can make 342 anagrams from letters in impalpable (aabeillmpp).

Definitions for impalpable

adjective

  1. not palpable; incapable of being perceived by the sense of touch; intangible.
  2. difficult for the mind to grasp readily or easily:
  3. (of powder) so fine that when rubbed between the fingers no grit is felt.

Origin of impalpable

First recorded in 1500-10; im-2 + palpable

Examples for impalpable

It was as though her face was covered by an impalpable grey mask.

The only change was the impalpable one which occurs in a room when a clock stops.

Only the originals have a true, if impalpable, connection to that man and that moment of making.

This impalpable missive dated from seventeen days previously.

The words were kind; yet it was not for their sake that Rickie plunged into the impalpable cloud.

"Even now I don't believe in him," the impalpable legend ran.

There was only a wretched, impalpable condition to deal with.

He waited for the sun to pierce this impalpable fog, but waited in vain.

The mist was all around and about him, creeping, impalpable, phantom-like.

He seemed to see Enid through some impalpable and yet impenetrable medium.

Word Value for impalpable
Scrable

18

Words with friends

24

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