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Synonyms for impenetrable
ɪmˈpɛn ɪ trə bəlim·pen·e·tra·ble

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  1. impenetrableadjective

    Antonyms:
    penetrable

  2. impenetrableadjective

    The fortress is impenetrable, so it cannot be taken.

    Antonyms:
    penetrable

  3. impenetrableadjective

    Business jargon makes this document impenetrable, I can't understand it.

    Antonyms:
    penetrable

Princeton's WordNet5.0 / 3 votes

  1. impenetrableadjective

    not admitting of penetration or passage into or through

    "an impenetrable fortress"; "impenetrable rain forests"

    Synonyms:
    dense, heavy

    Antonyms:
    comprehendible, comprehensible, penetrable, thin

  2. dense, heavy, impenetrableadjective

    permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter

    "dense smoke"; "heavy fog"; "impenetrable gloom"

    Synonyms:
    laboured, sullen, laborious, heavy, dull, overweight, toilsome, slow, intemperate, sound, dumb, wakeless, dense, grueling, with child(p), threatening, grave, profound, lowering, cloggy, heavy(a), large(p), clayey, enceinte, grievous, fleshy, weighed down, hard, weighty, gruelling, expectant, lumbering, ponderous, backbreaking, sonorous, great(p), arduous, operose, dim, heavy(p), big(a), labored, punishing, thick, gravid, big(p), obtuse, leaden

    Antonyms:
    comprehendible, penetrable, thin, comprehensible

  3. impenetrableadjective

    impossible to understand

    "impenetrable jargon"

    Synonyms:
    dense, heavy

    Antonyms:
    penetrable, comprehensible, thin, comprehendible

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. impenetrableadjective

    Synonyms:
    not to be penetrated, not to be pierced

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  1. impenetrableadjective

    Synonyms:
    impervious, imperforable

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  1. List of paraphrases for "impenetrable":

    inscrutable, incomprehensible, unfathomable, opaque

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How to use impenetrable in a sentence?

  1. Blaise Pascal:

    For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and all and infinitely far from understanding either. The ends of things and their beginnings are impregnably concealed from him in an impenetrable secret. He is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness out of which he was drawn and the infinite in which he is engulfed.

  2. Lionel Trilling:

    In the American metaphysic, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant.

  3. Hugh Cumberland:

    This image of the SWIFT network and the surrounding ecosystem being secure and impenetrable has encouraged complacency.

  4. Albert Einstein:

    To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull facilities can comprehend only in the most primitive forms--this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I belong to the ranks of the devoutly religious men.

  5. Georges Bataille:

    Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us.


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