Antonyms for impervious
ɪmˈpɜr vi əsim·per·vi·ous

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1. imperviousadjective

   Antonyms:
   pervious

2. imperviousadjective

   The man was completely impervious to the deception we were trying.

   Antonyms:
   pervious

3. imperviousadjective

   Although patchworked and sagging, the roof proved impervious to the weather.

   Antonyms:
   pervious

4. imperviousadjective

   The old car seemed to be impervious to the wear and tear of age.

   Antonyms:
   pervious

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1. impervious, imperviableadjective

   not admitting of passage or capable of being affected

   "a material impervious to water"; "someone impervious to argument"

   Antonyms:
   receptive, pervious

   Synonyms:
   imperviable

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1. imperviousadjective

   Synonyms:
   impermeable, impenetrable, imperviable

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. impervious

   Synonyms:
   Impermeable
   

How to use impervious in a sentence?

1. Julia Monk:

   If Caitlin McDonough assume a trait like SSB is a new development and has high costs, its going to be really hard to understand how it could become more and more common from those low initial frequencies, it would have to have really large fitness benefits, or be otherwise impervious to natural selection, for that outcome to be probable.

2. Robert Wibbelsman:

   The problem with the person who thinks he's a long-term investor and impervious to short-term gyrations is that the emotion of fear and pain will eventually make him sell badly.

3. Kimano M. Edwards:

   A life dedicated to service is impervious to cynics and immune to regret.

4. Erik Pevernagie:

   We have got to let loose sometimes, rather than indulging intractably in self-harm or self-mistreatment, by pursuing impervious dreams. ( « Les choses avaient enfin perdu leur pesanteur » )

5. Mike Smith:

   We're trying to find those companies that are impervious to what's going on right now.

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