• Impenetrable

    Origin

    From Middle French impenetrable, from Latin impenetrabilis.

    Full definition of impenetrable

    Adjective

    impenetrable

    1. Not penetrable.The fortress is impenetrable, so it cannot be taken.
      • 2012, John Branch, Snow Fall : The Avalanche at Tunnel CreekThe avalanche spread and stopped, locking everything it carried into an icy cocoon. It was now a jagged, virtually impenetrable pile of ice, longer than a football field and nearly as wide.
    2. (figuratively) Incomprehensible; inscrutable.Business jargon makes this document impenetrable, I can't understand it.

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