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say it: im-PAHN-dur-uh-buhl
imponderable is a noun and adjective meaning "a factor whose effects cannot be accurately assessed". It is pronounced /ˌɪmˈpɑndɚəbəl/ — im-PAHN-dur-uh-buhl. It carries 2 recorded senses.
difficult or impossible to evaluate with precision
“such imponderable human factors as aesthetic sensibility”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for imponderable come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.