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UK
/ɪmpˈɛnɪtɹəbəl/
]
[ US /ˌɪmˈpɛnətɹəbəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˌɪmˈpɛnətɹəbəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
not admitting of penetration or passage into or through
impenetrable rain forests
an impenetrable fortress -
permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter
impenetrable gloom
heavy fog
dense smoke -
impossible to understand
impenetrable jargon
How To Use impenetrable In A Sentence
- A tall, impenetrable wall with barbed wire and sharp metal spikes on top surrounded the entire complex.
- You will soon have a thick, impenetrable hedge to enclose the fast-growing butterfly bush, Buddleia davidii (coppice it annually to promote flowers), or the heavenly blue blooms of enthusiastic ceanothus thrysiflorus.
- I find his style somewhat impenetrable.
- But I suppose it was too much to expect for him to have a black, twirly moustache and for her to cackle mysteriously from beneath an impenetrable black shroud.
- Beyond it, the Cumbrian mountains rear, an impenetrable barrier.
- Her priority is to maintain an impenetrable veneer of normalcy, of successful, aspirational living while he longs to wake up from the monotony of his existence and start living again.
- impenetrable gloom
- The media rarely intrude into this haven because they are unwanted, deterred by the astronomical cost of gaining access and bored by the impenetrable language. Times, Sunday Times
- The ghost of a gist of an explanation for at least a few previously impenetrable imponderables began to agglutinate amongthe eddies of the Inspector's thoughts. The Mocking Program
- At the other extreme, it is favoured by inner-city teens who appear to communicate entirely in an impenetrable mix of street slang and patois.
