Intangible
[ɪn'tæn(d)ʒɪb(ə)l] or [ɪn'tændʒəbl]
Definition
(noun.) assets that are saleable though not material or physical.
(adj.) lacking substance or reality; incapable of being touched or seen; 'that intangible thing--the soul' .
(adj.) hard to pin down or identify; 'an intangible feeling of impending disaster' .
(adj.) incapable of being perceived by the senses especially the sense of touch; 'the intangible constituent of energy'- James Jeans .
(adj.) (of especially business assets) not having physical substance or intrinsic productive value; 'intangible assets such as good will' .
Editor: Ozzie--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Not tangible; incapable of being touched; not perceptible to the touch; impalpable; imperceptible.
Edited by Lancelot
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Impalpable, that cannot be touched.
Typist: Shane
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See TANGIBLE]
Inputed by Katrina
Definition
adj. not tangible or perceptible to touch.—ns. Intan′gibleness Intangibil′ity.—adv. Intan′gibly.
Typed by Brian
Examples
- But it was all intangible. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Nice cutting is her function: she divides With spiritual edge the millet-seed, And makes intangible savings. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He was purely intangible, yet so near. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- This invisible and intangible distance is also found by experience to contain a capacity of receiving body, or of becoming visible and tangible. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- But these are intangible points. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The air all round was intangible, neither here nor there, and there was an unreal noise of banjoes, or suchlike music. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Without its subtile, pulsating, intangible spirit, it is but dead matter. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Beyond, was a prize as intangible as the button of the Legion of Honor, which he concealed from his friends that they might not feel he was showing off. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Indeed there was softness in her whole deportment--in her face, in her voice; but there was also reserve, and an air fleeting, evanishing, intangible. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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