Impenetrable

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  • adjective. Impossible to penetrate or enter.
  • adjective. Impossible to understand; incomprehensible.
  • adjective. Impervious to sentiment or argument.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Incapable of being penetrated; not penetrable, in any sense of that word.
  • Specifically, in physics, having the property of preventing any other substance from occupying the same place at the same time.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Incapable of being penetrated or pierced; not admitting the passage of other bodies; not to be entered; impervious.
  • adjective. Having the property of preventing any other substance from occupying the same space at the same time.
  • adjective. Inaccessible, as to knowledge, reason, sympathy, etc.; unimpressible; not to be moved by arguments or motives.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Not penetrable.
  • adjective. Incomprehensible; inscrutable.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. not admitting of penetration or passage into or through
  • adjective. permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter
  • adjective. impossible to understand
  • Word Usage
    "Announcing his response to a formal consultation, Cable outlined plans for greater diversity on boards – including requiring boards to contain two people who had never had seats in boardrooms before – and to make remuneration reports, which he described as "impenetrable", easier to understand."
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