impenetrable
im·pen·etrable (im pen′i trə bəl)
adjective
- that cannot be penetrated or passed through an impenetrable jungle
- that cannot be solved or understood; unfathomable; inscrutable
- unreceptive to ideas, impressions, influences, etc.
- Physics having that property of matter by which two bodies are prevented from occupying the same space at the same time
Etymology: ME inpenetrable < Fr impénétrable < L impenetrabilis
impenetrable
modif.
Dense
impervious, impermeable, solid, compact; see firm 2, impassable, thick 1.Incomprehensible
unintelligible, inscrutable, unfathomable; see obscure 1.
Preposition: as
- night: Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.
Adjective complement with noun phrase
- make: In places the lack of precision in the use of terms and concepts makes the book impenetrable.
- find: A: I have to say I found the plot impenetrable.
Modifies a noun
- thicket: Prior to this it had been an impenetrable thicket with no views of the River Cherwell or the cricket pitch beyond.
- jungle: May reduce take-up impenetrable jungle of according to the lays out the.
- fissure: Back down at stream level you reach a hairpin bend with an inlet entering on the right from an impenetrable fissure.
- rift: However, my comments about the impenetrable rift had not been forgotten.
- jargon: Free of charge There's nothing quite like technology with its impenetrable jargon for frightening off your average human being.
- fog: A thick layer of impenetrable fog hung over the line.
Modifying Another Word
- seemingly: Few researchers can breach the seemingly impenetrable barriers of the medieval period.
- virtually: Portable and personal, they pose a virtually impenetrable barrier to fraud.
- utterly: To what extent can anything possibly good come of this nonsense which is utterly impenetrable?
- almost: First there is the ' Flow Country ' , an area of wild and almost impenetrable bogs and moorland.
- somewhat: Another great book we have discussed is Grant Morrison's Invisibles, a sprawling work which, on first examination seems somewhat impenetrable.
- otherwise: And he reaches a whole world of otherwise impenetrable international market's in the process.
Used with adjective complement
- seem: This engagement opens up what seems otherwise almost impenetrable.
- remain: The top end of Curraghard remains impenetrable even five months on.
- become: A series of small pitches descends to -130 m where the way on becomes impenetrable.
- prove: However South's defense proved impenetrable with keeper Tim Poole stopping various shots in the last 15 minutes.
- make: However, no password-protected system of data storage and retrieval can be made entirely impenetrable.
The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mystical. It is the power of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which ourdull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive formsöthis knowledge, this feeling, isatthe centerof true religiousness.In thissense, and in this sense only, I belong to the rank of devoutly religious men.
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