impregnable
impregnable¹
Definition
im·preg·nable (im preg′nə bəl)
im·preg′·nabil′·ity noun
im·preg′·nably adverb
impregnable²
Definition
im·preg·nable (im preg′nə bəl)
impregnable
Synonyms
impregnable
Usage Examples
Preposition: against
- attack: Total security - Statistically impregnable against brute force attacks.
Adjective complement with noun phrase
- make: The walls of this rise up from a rocky base that made the fortress well nigh impregnable.
Modifies a noun
- fortress: The security of our land is founded on the myth of the impregnable fortress.
- castle: Further inland you will find the ancient extinct volcanoes and the impregnable castles of the Auvergne.
- defense: Our brave soldiers of hope finally breached the seemingly impregnable defenses of the cynical hatchet men who confronted them.
- wall: When dawn was come all those starving peasants may well have stood before the high impregnable walls in the broad daylight of despair.
- position: They had seen a seemingly impregnable position snatched away by a moment of madness from their goalkeeper.
- stronghold: My impregnable stronghold will not have a hidden back door.
Modifying Another Word
- seemingly: The Record, once the seemingly impregnable bible of the Scottish working class, has been humbled.
- virtually: Pele towers were virtually impregnable stone built tower houses with walls three to four feet thick.
- almost: Theodosius left Britain in a defensive situation; the towns had been refortified and made almost impregnable with high strong walls.
- apparently: From this material he builds up an apparently impregnable argument in favor of the revived eastern cult.
- supposedly: It was supposedly impregnable, but Joab made a daring assault via the water shaft, and the city fell.
- so: Bond's self-assurance was so impregnable that his women needed ludicrous identities and pumped-up sexuality to compete.
Used with adjective complement
- consider: This fort, with a Mysore garrison of more than 3500, was considered impregnable.
- seem: But the Tomb you've gotta destroy seems impregnable.
- look: In the blue corner, Tony Blair, whose ten year reign looks as impregnable as ever.
- appear: The system is made to appear impregnable by a constant production of new forms of ideology.
- make: Theodosius left Britain in a defensive situation; the towns had been refortified and made almost impregnable with high strong walls.
- remain: The ground is shaken by earth tremors; but in spite of all, for 700 years the channels have remained well-nigh impregnable.
Browse dictionary entries near impregnable
- imprecise
- imprecation
- imprecate
- impracticality
- impractical
- impracticable
- impracticability
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- impower
- impoverished
- impregnate
- impregnated
- impresa
- impresario
- imprescriptible
- impress
- impress on or upon
- impressed
- impressibility
- impressible
