impenetrable

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[ UK /ɪmpˈɛnɪtɹəbə‍l/ ]
[ US /ˌɪmˈpɛnətɹəbəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. not admitting of penetration or passage into or through
    impenetrable rain forests
    an impenetrable fortress
  2. permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter
    impenetrable gloom
    heavy fog
    dense smoke
  3. impossible to understand
    impenetrable jargon
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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.
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