IMPONDERABLE Synonyms: 63 Similar and Opposite Words

imponderable

adjective

Definition of imponderable

as in uncanny

formal impossible to measure or judge exactly the imponderable vastness of space

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Recent Examples of imponderable The ultimate result was an imponderable. — Mery Mogollon, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2026 Add to these twists the imponderable of artificial intelligence, which drastically accelerates human decision-making and thus increases the potential for human error, especially under pressure. — Andreas Kluth, Twin Cities, 17 Aug. 2025 Crookes was universally recognized as one of the greatest scientists of the Victorian era, at the forefront of research on invisible forces and imponderable phenomena. — Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024 The wealth of data collected under the 702 program is imponderable. — Dell Cameron, WIRED, 4 Dec. 2023 And underneath all that would be something very imponderable, thrilling, heavy, and challenging. — Vulture, 17 July 2023 In essence, the slow process of the plates cooling to bedrock, like the evolution of biological life itself, responds to an activity of unsettlingly imponderable and cataclysmic scale. — Lawrence Jackson, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023 But Clapper was wrong to suggest that the will to fight is imponderable. — Scott Atran, Foreign Affairs, 2 Dec. 2019

Recent Examples of Synonyms for imponderable

Adjective

Books that get called weird girl lit tend to deal in uncanny or dreamlike circumstances.

— Abby McCarter, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2026
Phoebe Bridgers, in her first film role, pulls off an uncanny transformation as a decoy who bends lines of age and gender.

— Joe Reid, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of uncanny

Adjective

Yeoh plays Olwen, a replicant Blade Runner nearing the end of her life, who partners with Schafer’s Cora, a mysterious new recruit.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 7 Oct. 2026
New research suggests the ‘world’s most mysterious manuscript,’ of unknown provenance, made in the Middle Ages (1404–38), is being read all wrong, reports The Guardian.

— Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of mysterious

Adjective

Disrupting their lives is an enigmatic woman named Cathy Ames, who Adam marries and who gives birth to Cal and Aron.

— Senior Television, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2026
But of the leaders of those three mega-bands, perhaps the most mysterious remains Pete Townshend, The Who’s songwriter and enigmatic eminence, thrashing chords and smashing guitars while Roger Daltrey handled lead vocals.

— Matthew Carey, Deadline, 3 Oct. 2026

Definition of enigmatic

Adjective

Two translations—of poems by the Indian mystic Mirabai and the contemporary Romanian poet Radu Vancu—seek to inhabit and transcend the history that holds up the present.

— Craig Morgan Teicher, Literary Hub, 1 Oct. 2026
Rumi is also the name of a very famous 13th-century Persian poet and mystic.

— Sarah Scott, Parents, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of mystic

Adjective

There’s nothing about the white bedding, dark-wood furniture, and tan carpeting that will knock your socks off—but nothing that will make your toes curl, either.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Oct. 2026
Guadagnino and screenwriter Simon Rich mold the material from dark humor through technocratic giddiness to sobering horror.

— David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of dark

Adjective

And given Lambert’s own experiences, might even seem unfathomable.

— Katie McCurdy, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2026
That might seem almost unfathomable to anyone familiar with the last few years of FSU football, but there's still the lingering questions of Norvell's buyout now coupled with a new AD trying to get his footing in an absolute mess of a situation.

— Austin Perry OutKick, FOXNews.com, 29 Sep. 2026

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