ponderable

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  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. Worthy of note; significant, interesting.
  3. Heavy; ponderous. rare
    — The very mother's head you swore by in the dock is a heavier head, crowned with ponderable hair.

词形变化

more ponderable comparative most ponderable superlative

词汇关系

近义词
noteworthy
衍生词
imponderable ponderability ponderableness ponderably
相关词
ponder ponderous

词源

Etymology tree
English ponder
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English ponderable
From ponder + -able.
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