impenetrable
See also: impénétrable
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EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle French impenetrable, from Latin impenetrabilis.
AdjectiveEdit
impenetrable (not comparable)
- Not penetrable.
- The fortress is impenetrable, so it cannot be taken.
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2012 April 23, John Branch, “Snow Fall : The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in New York Time[1]:
- 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; inscrutable.
- Business jargon makes this document impenetrable, I can't understand it.
AntonymsEdit
TranslationsEdit
not penetrable
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incomprehensible; inscrutable
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SpanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin impenetrabilis.
AdjectiveEdit
impenetrable (plural impenetrables)
- impenetrable
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1867, Cesare Cantù, Historia universal, 8, page 118:
- como una muralla impenetrable
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