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

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. impenetrableadjective

   not admitting of penetration or passage into or through

   "an impenetrable fortress"; "impenetrable rain forests"

2. dense, heavy, impenetrableadjective

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

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

3. impenetrableadjective

   impossible to understand

   "impenetrable jargon"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. impenetrableadjective

   Not penetrable.

   The fortress is impenetrable, so it cannot be taken.

2. impenetrableadjective

   Incomprehensible; inscrutable.

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

3. Etymology: From impenetrabilis.

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

1. IMPENETRABLEadjective

   Etymology: impenetrable, Fr. impenetrabilis, Lat.

   1. Not to be pierced; not to be entered by any external force.

   With hard'ning cold, and forming heat,
   The cyclops did their strokes repeat,
   Before th' impenetrable shield was wrought. Dryden.

   2. Impervious; not admitting entrance.

   Deep into some thick covert would I run,
   Impenetrable to the stars or sun. Dryden.

   The mind frights itself with any thing reflected on in gross: things, thus offered to the mind, carry the shew of nothing but difficulty in them, and are thought to be wrapped up in impenetrable obscurity. John Locke.

   3. Not to be taught; not to be informed.4. Not to be affected; not to be moved.

   It is the most impenetrable cur
   That ever kept with men.
   ———— Let him alone;
   I'll follow him no more with bootless prayers. William Shakespeare.

   Some will never believe a proposition in divinity, if any thing can be said against it: they will be credulous in all affairs of life, but impenetrable by a sermon of the gospel. Taylor.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. impenetrable

   In metaphysics, impenetrability is the name given to that quality of matter whereby two bodies cannot occupy the same space at the same time. The philosopher John Toland argued that impenetrability and extension were sufficient to define matter, a contention strongly disputed by Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz. Locke considered impenetrability to be "more a consequence of solidity, than solidity itself."

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1. impenetrable

   Impenetrable refers to something that cannot be passed through, entered, or infiltrated due to its solid or dense nature. It can also refer to an idea, statement, or text that is difficult or impossible to understand or interpret due to its complexity or ambiguity.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Impenetrableadjective

   incapable of being penetrated or pierced; not admitting the passage of other bodies; not to be entered; impervious; as, an impenetrable shield

2. Impenetrableadjective

   having the property of preventing any other substance from occupying the same space at the same time

3. Impenetrableadjective

   inaccessible, as to knowledge, reason, sympathy, etc.; unimpressible; not to be moved by arguments or motives; as, an impenetrable mind, or heart

4. Etymology: [L. impenetrabilis; pref. im- not + penetrabilis penetrable: cf. F. impntrable.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Impenetrable

   im-pen′e-tra-bl, adj. incapable of being pierced: preventing another body from occupying the same space at the same time: not to be impressed in mind or heart.—n. Impenetrabil′ity, one of the essential properties of matter, implying that no two bodies can at the same time occupy the same space.—adv. Impen′etrably.

Military Dictionary and GazetteerRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. impenetrable

   Incapable of being penetrated or pierced, not admitting the passage of other bodies, not to be entered; as, an impenetrable shield.

Anagrams for impenetrable »

1. intemperable

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of impenetrable in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of impenetrable in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of impenetrable in a Sentence

1. Voltaire:

   There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable.

2. 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.

3. Lionel Trilling:

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

4. Lindy Boggs:

   When you’re not in leadership, you don’t have a seat at the table – maybe you have your subcommittee or your committee, something like that – but it almost is impenetrable, and the American people know it. They feel it and that’s why they’re becoming radical in their political expressions.

5. 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.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=impenetrable
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Impenetrable
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=impenetrable
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impenetrable
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/impenetrable
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=impenetrable
8. ^ Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/59563/pg59563-images.html