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Impenetrable   /ɪmpˈɛnətrəbəl/   Listen
Impenetrable

adjective
1.
Not admitting of penetration or passage into or through.  "Impenetrable rain forests"
2.
Permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter.  Synonyms: dense, heavy.  "Heavy fog" , "Impenetrable gloom"
3.
Impossible to understand.



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"Impenetrable" Quotes from Famous Books



... an extraordinary and unusual fog, reminiscent of London, except that it was not black and sooty. It was dense, however; dense as if it were enshrouding the Grand Banks, and of the same impenetrable, milky consistency. To be sure the morning sun had not had an opportunity as yet to burn it off—automobilists on tour are early birds, and the autumn ...
— The Automobilist Abroad • M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield

... D'Artagnan's suspicion increased. The latter even fancied he remarked that the governor was acting under the influence of a recent recommendation. Baisemeaux had not been at the Palais Royal with D'Artagnan the same cold and impenetrable man which the latter now found in the Baisemeaux of the Bastile. When D'Artagnan wished to make him talk about the urgent money matters which had brought Baisemeaux in search of D'Artagnan, and had rendered him ...
— Louise de la Valliere • Alexandre Dumas, Pere

... difficulty. The loose boulders rested upon one another, in such fashion, that even the most expert climber would have found difficulty in scaling them; and the stunted spreading cedars that grew between their clefts, combined in forming a chevaux de frise almost impenetrable. ...
— The Wild Huntress - Love in the Wilderness • Mayne Reid

... effect of the abundance of cattle and the scarcity of food for them, the young willows, which, even so late as ten years ago, formed one of the characteristic features of the river and its banks, growing thickly in the bed of the stream, and often forming impenetrable jungles on its banks, ...
— Aboriginal Remains in Verde Valley, Arizona • Cosmos Mindeleff

... Meanwhile Ermengarde proceeded to question her niece more closely. "Is it that thou wilt not, or canst not, tell me to which of the De Lacys thou art to be bondswoman?—to the overweening Constable, who, sheathed in impenetrable armour, and mounted on a swift and strong horse as invulnerable as himself, takes pride that he rides down and stabs at his ease, and with perfect safety, the naked Welshmen?—or is it to his nephew, the beardless Damian?—or ...
— The Betrothed • Sir Walter Scott


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