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Definition of Impenetrable

1. Adjective. Not admitting of penetration or passage into or through. "Impenetrable rain forests"

2. Adjective. Permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter. "Impenetrable gloom"

3. Adjective. Impossible to understand. "Impenetrable jargon"

Definition of Impenetrable

1. a. Incapable of being penetrated or pierced; not admitting the passage of other bodies; not to be entered; impervious; as, an impenetrable shield.

Definition of Impenetrable

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Impenetrable

1. 1. Incapable of being penetrated or pierced; not admitting the passage of other bodies; not to be entered; impervious; as, an impenetrable shield. "Highest woods impenetrable To star or sunlight." (Milton) 2. Having the property of preventing any other substance from occupying the same space at the same time. 3. Inaccessible, as to knowledge, reason, sympathy, etc.; unimpressible; not to be moved by arguments or motives; as, an impenetrable mind, or heart. "They will be credulous in all affairs of life, but impenetrable by a sermon of the gospel." (Jer. Taylor) Origin: L. Impenetrabilis; pref. Im- not + penetrabilis penetrable: cf. F. Impenetrable. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Impenetrable

impellers impelling impellor impellors impels impend impended impendence impendency impendent

impending impends impenetrability impenetrability impenetrable (current term) impenetrable (current term) impenetrableness impenetrably impenitence impenitence

impenitences impenitency impenitent impenitent impenitently impennate impennes impennous imperative imperatively

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