Definitions for Impervious
ɪmˈpɜr vi əsim·per·vi·ous

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. impervious, imperviableadjective

   not admitting of passage or capable of being affected

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

WiktionaryRate this definition:3.0 / 2 votes

1. imperviousadjective

   unaffected or unable to be affected by

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

2. imperviousadjective

   preventative of any penetration; impenetrable, impermeable, particularly of water

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

3. imperviousadjective

   immune to damage or effect

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

4. Etymology: From impervius, from in- + pervius

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. IMPERVIOUSadjective

   Etymology: impervius, Latin.

   1. Unpassable; impenetrable.

   We may thence discern of how close a texture glass is, since so very thin a film proved so impervious to the air, that it was forced to break the glass to free itself. Boyle.

   Lest the difficulty of passing back
   Stay his return, perhaps, over this gulf
   Impassable, impervious; let us try
   To found a path from hell to that new world. John Milton.

   The cause of reflexion is not the impinging of light on the solid or impervious parts of bodies. Isaac Newton, Opt.

   A great many vessels are, in this state, impervious by the fluids. Arbuthnot.

   From the damp earth impervious vapours rise,
   Increase the darkness, and involve the skies. Alexander Pope.

   2. Inaccessible. Perhaps improperly used.

   A river's mouth impervious to the wind,
   And clear of rocks. Alexander Pope, Odyssey.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. impervious

   Permeability in fluid mechanics and the Earth sciences (commonly symbolized as k) is a measure of the ability of a porous material (often, a rock or an unconsolidated material) to allow fluids to pass through it.

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1. impervious

   Impervious is an adjective that refers to the inability to be affected by, penetrated by, or allowing the passage of a particular substance or influence. This could pertain to a material or surface being resistant to water (or other liquids), a person being unaffected by insults or criticism, or a situation being immune to a particular outcome or effect.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. Imperviousadjective

   not pervious; not admitting of entrance or passage through; as, a substance impervious to water or air

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Impervious in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Impervious in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of Impervious in a Sentence

1. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer:

   Which isn't a lot. But this primary is just getting started.Both of these things can't be trueTrump's main pitch for reelection is the economy and, while it hasn't lived up to his 2016 campaign promises, he put forward an extremely rosy outlook in his annual budget proposal, released Monday.Just as an example, read from CNN's story about the predicted deficits in Trump's budget compared to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.Both of these things cannot be true:CBO says budget will grow -- The deficit -- the gap between how much the government spends versus how much it takes in -- surpassed $1 trillion for the calendar year in 2019, marking the first time since 2012.That number is only expected to widen even further over the coming decade, reaching a total of $1.7 trillion in 2030, according to the latest projections by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office released in late January.White House says budget will shrink -- That's a sharp contrast to the White House's latest blueprint, which projects that the deficit will shrink to $261 billion by 2030. The President's budget assumes that the economy will grow at around 3% annually during that period of time helping to narrow the gap. Those estimates are significantly higher than what most economists anticipated along with the Federal Reserve.Bonus: Read CNN reporter Donna Borak's piece on the White House plan for more tax cuts despite the deficits.Impeachment falloutGiuliani has a channel to Barr -- Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham said Rudy Giuliani is giving information regarding his Ukraine conspiracy theories to Attorney General William Barr through some sort of special channel Barr has set up. This is not surprising since Trump clearly lumps his lawyer and the attorney general together. He asked Ukraine's President to be in touch with both of them. But a back channel to the DOJ? This is, um, not how things are supposed to work, writes Elie Honig.Trump weaponizes the presidency -- Read this from Stephen Collinson: (Trump) is completing his project of fashioning the office around his own personality. It's unrestrained, unaccountable, often profane, impervious to outside influence and factual constraints of normal governance. The President has established dominance over his party, his Cabinet and his own media complex. He loosened Congress's constraints by refusing to cooperate with the impeachment probe. The result is that there are very few political constraints on his behavior left.

2. Angela Berry:

   I like to think it’ll make a difference. But I think everybody is not impervious to the fact that this is political.

3. 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 » )

4. 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.

5. 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.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Impervious
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Impervious
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Impervious
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impervious
5. ^ ChatGPT
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6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Impervious