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impenetrable
[ im-pen-i-truh-buhl ]
adjective
- not penetrable; that cannot be penetrated, pierced, entered, etc.
- inaccessible to ideas, influences, etc.
- incapable of being understood; inscrutable; unfathomable:
an impenetrable mystery.
Synonyms: hidden, obscure, mysterious, incomprehensible
- Physics. possessing impenetrability.
impenetrable
/ ɪmˈpɛnɪtrəbəl /
adjective
- incapable of being pierced through or penetrated
an impenetrable forest
- incapable of being understood; incomprehensible
impenetrable jargon
- incapable of being seen through
impenetrable gloom
- not susceptible to ideas, influence, etc
impenetrable ignorance
- physics (of a body) incapable of occupying the same space as another body
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Derived Forms
- imˌpenetraˈbility, noun
- imˈpenetrableness, noun
- imˈpenetrably, adverb
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Other Words From
- im·pene·tra·ble·ness noun
- im·pene·tra·bly adverb
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Word History and Origins
Origin of impenetrable1
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Example Sentences
That’s an important statement that this movement is unpersuadable precisely because it is operating in impenetrable bad faith.
Eivor is a foreigner to this land, and in these early years of human history the language barrier is impenetrable.
Gradually poets I’d once considered impenetrable filled me with awe instead of bafflement.
By the end of the third episode, it’s clear that focusing on Grace’s impenetrable stare is intentional.
Meanwhile, at the WCS facility, the waste will be covered by a 40-foot-thick layer of impenetrable red clay —which serves the same function as the salt at WIPP—once the storage sites are filled.
When it comes to the increasing number of rape allegations leveled at Bill Cosby, the smoke is becoming impenetrable.
At the highest navigable point of the Congo River, thick jungle creates an impenetrable wall of green around a large island.
Together, they formed an almost impenetrable sea of fitted baseball caps surrounding the stage.
These reporters are working within a bubble, impenetrable to secular outsiders.
But, as Korda clearly recognizes, Lee himself could be almost as impenetrable as stone.
Now suddenly she felt a mystery in Baroudi far deeper, far more impenetrable, than any mystery that dwelt in Nigel.
The great horses with their eager riders dashed themselves in vain against the solid and impenetrable schiltron.
An endless forest, the impenetrable earth; the one to be removed, and the other to be excavated.
As they entered the mouth of the cave, darkness, black and impenetrable, dropped on them like a cloak.
And still that blank wall of dirt, that impenetrable darkness, that stubborn barrier between them and the blessed sunshine.
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