impenetrable
impenetrable is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.(Physics) Having the property of preventing any other substance from occupying the same space at the same time.
- 2.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.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- air
- alley
- bar
- blind
- block
- blockade
- bolt
- bung
- button
- caecal
- caecum
- choke
- clinch
- close
- closure
- constipation
- contraction
- cork
- corner
- cram
- cul-de-sac
- dam
- door
- down
- embolus
- fill
- hermetically
- hinder
- hindrance
- impassable
- imperforate
- imperforation
- impermeability
- impermeable
- impervious
- imporous
- infarction
- invious
- keddah
- obstipation
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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