impalpable
形容词 adj.
英文释义
形容词 adj.
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Incapable of being touched or felt; incorporeal, intangible.
— But here thou canst not handle aught, neither make the folk ware of thee, not though thou shout thy throat hoarse. For thou and I walk here impalpable and invisible, as it were two dreams walking.
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Not able to be perceived, or able to be perceived only with difficulty; insubstantial, thin.
— On the benches lay figures covered with yellow linen, on which a fine and impalpable dust had gathered in the course of ages, but nothing like to the extent that one would have anticipated, for in these deep-hewn caves there is no material to turn to dust.
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Not easily grasped (mentally) or understood.
— What is happiness, anyhow? Is this one of its hours, or the like of it?—so impalpable—a mere breath, an evanescent tinge?
词汇关系
词源
From Middle French impalpable, from Medieval Latin impalpabilis. See im- + palpable.
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