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Meaning of ponderable | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. Having a detectable amount of matter; having a measurable mass.
  2. Worthy of note; significant, interesting.
  3. Heavy; ponderous.
    rare

Examples

“[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.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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