impenetrable
See also: impénétrable
English
Etymology
From Middle French impenetrable, from Latin impenetrabilis.
Adjective
impenetrable (not comparable)
- Not penetrable.
- The fortress is impenetrable, so it cannot be taken.
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- The avalanche spread and stopped, locking everything it carried into an icy cocoon. It was now a jagged, virtually impenetrable pile of ice, longer than a football field and nearly as wide.
- (figuratively) Incomprehensible; fathomless; inscrutable.
- Business jargon makes this document impenetrable, I can't understand it.
- Opaque; obscure; not translucent or transparent.
- When night falls, she cloaks the world in impenetrable darkness.
Synonyms
- (not penetrable): impregnable, unfathomable
- (incomprehensible): See also Thesaurus:incomprehensible
Antonyms
- (not penetrable): penetrable, pregnable, fathomable
- (incomprehensible): See also Thesaurus:comprehensible
Translations
not penetrable
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incomprehensible; inscrutable
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Spanish
Etymology
From Latin impenetrabilis.
Adjective
impenetrable (plural impenetrables)
- impenetrable
- 1867, Cesare Cantù, Historia universal, 8, page 118:
- como una muralla impenetrable
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