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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Impenetrable \Im*pen"e*tra*ble\, a. [L. impenetrabilis pref. im- not + penetrabilis penetrable: cf F. imp['e]n['e]trable.] 1. Incapable of being penetrated or pierced; not admitting the passage of other bodies; not to be entered; impervious; as an impenetrable shield. Highest woods impenetrable To star or sunlight. --Milton. 2. (Physics) Having the property of preventing any other substance from occupying the same space at the same time. 3. Inaccessible, as to knowledge, reason, sympathy, etc.; unimpressible not to be moved by arguments or motives; as an impenetrable mind, or heart. They will be credulous in all affairs of life, but impenetrable by a sermon of the gospel. --Jer. Taylor. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: impenetrable adj 1: not admitting of penetration or passage into or through "an impenetrable fortress"; "impenetrable rain forests" [ant: {penetrable}] 2: permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter; "dense smoke"; "heavy fog"; "impenetrable gloom" [syn: {dense}, {heavy}] 3: impossible to understand; "impenetrable jargon"
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