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Synonyms for intangible

Grammar : Adj
Spell : in-tan-juh-buhl
Phonetic Transcription : ɪnˈtæn dʒə bəl

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Définition of intangible

Origin :
  • 1630s, "incapable of being touched," from French intangible (c.1500) or directly from Medieval Latin intangibilis, from in- "not" (see in- (1)) + Late Latin tangibilis "that may be touched" (see tangible). Figurative sense of "that cannot be grasped by the mind" is from 1880. Noun meaning "anything intangible" is from 1914. Related: Intangibly.
  • adj indefinite, obscured
Example sentences :
  • Why should he battle and strive for an unattainable something as intangible as a dream?
  • Extract from : « Thoroughbreds » by W. A. Fraser
  • The intangible monster of a misunderstanding had crept between them.
  • Extract from : « Meadow Grass » by Alice Brown
  • He paused, and looked at his companion as if seeking that intangible something.
  • Extract from : « Roden's Corner » by Henry Seton Merriman
  • The obvious dead, the intangible alive, and no connection at all between them!
  • Extract from : « Howards End » by E. M. Forster
  • But that fear was not like this fear, which was intimate, personal but intangible.
  • Extract from : « The Vagrant Duke » by George Gibbs
  • It is often the intangible thing that tells and that is valuable.
  • Extract from : « Rural Life and the Rural School » by Joseph Kennedy
  • The most intangible of assets and the most unescapable of liabilities.
  • Extract from : « Rope » by Holworthy Hall
  • All intangible, ghostly menace downs before this real danger.
  • Extract from : « Oswald Langdon » by Carson Jay Lee
  • You've got a sort of intangible interest in that, haven't you?
  • Extract from : « Little Miss Grouch » by Samuel Hopkins Adams
  • For mind is intangible; we cannot see it, feel it, taste it, or handle it.
  • Extract from : « The Mind and Its Education » by George Herbert Betts

Antonyms for intangible

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