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impalpably

impalpably adverb: in an impalpable manner.

Adverb

impalpably (comparative more impalpably, superlative most impalpably)

  1. In an impalpable manner.
    • These books will fill, and well fill, certain stretches of life […] But in old or nervous or solemnest or dying hours, when one needs the impalpably soothing and vitalizing influences of abysmic Nature, or its affinities in literature or human society, and the soul resents the keenest mere...1892, Walt Whitman, “Notes Left Over: Emerson's Books”, in Complete Prose Works

Forms of impalpably

comparativemore impalpably
superlativemost impalpably

Origin of impalpably

From impalpable + -ly.

Questions about impalpably

What does impalpably mean?
Impalpably means in an impalpable manner.
What part of speech is impalpably?
Impalpably is an adverb.

Words near impalpably in the dictionary

  1. impalming
  2. impalms
  3. impalpabilities
  4. impalpability
  5. impalpable
  6. impalpably
  7. impalsied
  8. impalsies
  9. impalsy
  10. impalsying
  11. impaludism

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