ponderable
/ˈpɒndəɹəbəl/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.11 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Having a detectable amount of matter; having a measurable mass.
adj
noun
Something that is ponderable
Example Sentences
- "[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."
- "The very mother's head you swore by in the dock is a heavier head, crowned with ponderable hair."
Etymology
Etymology tree English ponder Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English ponderable From ponder + -able.
Inflected Forms
more ponderable (comparative)
most ponderable (superlative)
ponderables (plural)