imponderable

Describes something that is impossible to estimate, measure, or foresee; often used in abstract or philosophical contexts.

• 🇫🇷Qualifie ce qui ne peut pas être évalué, mesuré ou prévu avec précision ; souvent utilisé dans des contextes abstraits ou philosophiques pour désigner ce qui échappe à l'analyse rationnelle.

1. Difficult to assess or measure C2 formal

   Something that is very hard or impossible to evaluate, estimate, or predict accurately.

   • The long-term effects of the new policy are imponderable.
   • The outcome of the experiment depends on many imponderable factors.
   • The artist's success is often due to imponderable elements like timing and luck.

   🇫🇷Difficile à évaluer ou mesurer

   Synonymes: immeasurableincalculableindeterminableinestimableunfathomableunmeasurable

   Antonymes: assessablecalculableestimablemeasurablequantifiable

• more imponderable comparative form
• most imponderable superlative form

A noun referring to a factor or element whose effects or consequences cannot be accurately assessed, measured, or predicted.

• 🇫🇷Nom désignant un facteur ou un élément dont l'influence ou les conséquences ne peuvent pas être précisément évaluées, mesurées ou prédites.

1. Unmeasurable factor C2 formal

   A factor whose effects or consequences cannot be accurately assessed or predicted.

   • The success of the project depends on many imponderables, such as public opinion.
   • In war, there are always imponderables that can change the outcome.
   • The imponderables of the market make long-term forecasting difficult.

   🇫🇷facteur non mesurable / imprévisible

   Synonymes: incalculableintangibleuncertaintyunknownunknown quantityvariable

   Antonymes: calculablemeasurablequantifiable

• imponderables plural form
• imponderables' possessive plural form
• imponderable's possessive singular form