impenetrably
Americanadverb
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in a way that cannot be penetrated, seen through, or accessed.
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in a way that cannot be understood; unfathomably, incomprehensibly.
Example Sentences
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It was, in the bluntest terms, a story about some attempts to help save the world … through initiatives with impenetrably bureaucratic names, like “the Western Resource Adequacy Program.”
From Seattle Times • May 7, 2023
Its environments range from arid desertscapes with sand dunes hundreds of feet high to lush tropical rainforests blanketed by impenetrably dense foliage.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
And while a novelist helped him write this memoir, “its voice is unmistakably his: direct, brash, flippant, charming, impenetrably self-assured. And funny.”
From New York Times • Oct. 8, 2021
In the corner of Obbink’s study stands a pool table, from which two Egyptian mummy masks stare out impenetrably.
From The Guardian • Jan. 9, 2020
It would have been impenetrably dark within hours.
From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu
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