impenetrably

Variant of impenetrable

adjective

  1. that cannot be penetrated or passed through: an impenetrable jungle
  2. that cannot be solved or understood; unfathomable; inscrutable
  3. unreceptive to ideas, impressions, influences, etc.
  4. Physics having that property of matter by which two bodies are prevented from occupying the same space at the same time

Origin: ME inpenetrable < Fr impénétrable < L impenetrabilis

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