impenetrable
Meaning of impenetrable
- impossible to pass through or enter.
a dark, impenetrable forest
- impossible to understand.
her expression was impenetrable
impenetrable jargon
late Middle English: via French from Latin impenetrabilis, from in- ‘not’ + penetrabilis ‘able to be pierced’, from the verb penetrare (see penetrate).
Information about impenetrable
- It is an adjective.
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Catalan
GalicianHyphenation of impenetrable
im-pen-e-tra-ble
- It consists of 5 syllables and 12 chars.
- impenetrable is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
impenetrable synonyms
Meaning dense:
Meaning impossible to travel along or over:
Meaning impossible to travel along or over; impassable:
Meaning unable to be reached:
Meaning (of a waterway or sea) not able to be sailed on by ships or boats:
Meaning impossible to travel across or through:
Meaning (of land) having no paths or tracks on it:
Meaning (of a surface) not having been walked on:
Meaning with opposite sides or surfaces that are far or relatively far apart:
Meaning covered with plants that have been allowed to grow wild:
Meaning characterized by jungle or resembling a jungle:
Meaning (of a person or animal) heavily or solidly built; stocky:
Meaning not able to be understood; not intelligible:
Meaning incapable of being fully explored or understood:
Meaning unable to be measured or understood; extremely deep:
Meaning unable to be explained or accounted for:
Meaning impossible to understand:
Meaning not easy to see, hear, or understand:
Meaning impossible to understand; perplexing:
Meaning confusing or perplexing:
Meaning causing one to be puzzled; perplexing:
Meaning completely baffling; very puzzling:
Meaning bewildering or perplexing:
Meaning difficult to understand; obscure:
Meaning not clearly expressed or easily understood:
Meaning (especially of language) hard or impossible to understand:
Meaning (of a subject or knowledge) little known; abstruse:
Meaning impossible to understand or interpret:
Meaning difficult or impossible to understand, explain, or identify:
Meaning having a meaning that is mysterious or obscure:
Meaning relating to the ancient Greek oracle at Delphi:
Meaning not easy to analyse or understand; complicated or intricate:
Meaning consisting of many interconnecting parts or elements; intricate:
Meaning needing much effort or skill to accomplish, deal with, or understand:
Meaning solid, firm, and rigid; not easily broken, bent, or pierced:
Meaning cause to lose one's way; lead or drive astray:
Meaning rare term for insoluble (sense 1):
impenetrable antonyms
Meaning (of a place) able to be reached or entered:
Meaning thinly dispersed or scattered:
Meaning easy to perceive, understand, or interpret:
Translation of impenetrable
- German: undurchlässig
- Italian: impenetrabile
- Spanish: impenetrable
- French: impénétrable
Anagrams of impenetrable
Words that rhyme with impenetrable
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