Word Finder - impenetrable

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Not penetrable.

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The fortress is impenetrable, so it cannot be taken.

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Incomprehensible; fathomless; inscrutable.

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

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Opaque; obscure; not translucent or transparent.

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When night falls, she cloaks the world in impenetrable darkness.

One hauled it open, and she peered into the impenetrable depths.

The whole is clothed with impenetrable forest.

The plateau is partly grass land without bush and forest, partly steppe covered with mimosa bush, which sometimes is almost impenetrable.

This engagement opens up what seems otherwise almost impenetrable.

A waterlogged soil is impenetrable by air, and owing to the continuous process of evaporation and radiation, its temperature is much below that of drained soil.

However, my comments about the impenetrable rift had not been forgotten.

But if you encase it in an impenetrable shell, it won't do you any good, right?

She stopped at the edge of where the clear water dropped suddenly into impenetrable blue depths.

The lagoons are surrounded by dense belts of reeds, and the coast-land is covered with low, impenetrable bush.

The cardoon and milk thistle, both European plants, cover tracts of country in South America with impenetrable thickets in which both man and beast may be hopelessly lost.

Vast and impenetrable forests, impassable marches and thickets, numerous lakes, swampy meadows, with cleared and dry spaces here and there occupied by villages, are the leading features of this region.

The Mussulman invaders of the Deccan passed it by, not caring to enter its mountain fastnesses and impenetrable forests; though occasional inscriptions show that parts of it had fallen from time to time under the dominion of one or other of the great kingdoms of the north, e.g.

The woods are so dense over large districts as to be impenetrable, except by cutting a path foot by foot through the close network of vines and undergrowth.

They contain stunted timber trees, palms, mangroves and other tropical and sub-tropical plants and have an almost impenetrable undergrowth.

These strata are generally impregnated with salt water, and are practically impenetrable to the rain-water of less weight.

The Spanish Americans plant the Opuntias around their houses, where they serve as impenetrable fences.

Between the rising swells of long-leaf pine lands are impenetrable thickets of hawthorn, holly, privet, plane trees and magnolias.

They are closely arrayed, capable of depression or elevation, and form a shield to the front of the breast impenetrable by the bill of a rival.

Many flowering and fruit-bearing shrubs of the heath family add to the beauty of the mountainous districts, rhododendron and kalmia often forming impenetrable thickets.

No real advance in metaphysics can take place, and natural science itself is in some danger, until the true history of the evidences of the laws of mechanical force is restored; and then it will soon appear that in the force of collision what we know is not material points determining one another's opposite accelerations, but bodies by force of impenetrable pressure causing one another to keep apart.

Carriers could scarcely be obtained, there were no local food supplies, the rainy season was at its height, all the roads were deep mire, the bush was almost impenetrable, and the enemy were both brave and cunning, fighting behind concealed stockades.

For generations the obstinately heathen Saxons had lain, a compact and impenetrable mass, between Scandinavia and the Frank empire, nor were the measures adopted by Charles the Great for the conversion of the Saxons to the true faith very much to the liking of their warlike Danish neighbours on the other side.

In the general engagement, next day, the English cavalry could not break the " impenetrable wood " of the Scottish spearmen, who, however, were galled by the arrows of the English bowmen, which had broken their formation at Falkirk.

This wild region is in many parts impenetrable to man, and nowhere yields a passage for a modern army.

The chamiso and the manzanita, with a variety of shrubby oaks and thorny plants, often grow together in a dense and sometimes quite impenetrable undergrowth, forming what is known as " chaparral "; if the chamiso occurs alone the thicket is a " chamisal."

From the Gomal river southward commences the true Suliman system, presenting an impenetrable barrier between the plains of the Indus and Afghanistan.

The explorations landward were, however, not so successful, and for many years the Blue Mountains, which rise a few miles back from Sydney, formed an impenetrable barrier to the progress of colonization.

The tribe of Levi had also been miraculously guided, from near Babylon, to Havila, where they were enclosed and protected by the mystic river Sambation or Sabbation, which on the Sabbath, though calm, was veiled in impenetrable mist, while on other days it ran with a fierce untraversable current of stones and sand.

Pomerania, protected on the south by virgin forests and almost impenetrable morasses, was in those days inhabited by a valiant and savage Slavonic race akin to the Wends, who clung to paganism with unconquerable obstinacy.

Owing to the almost impenetrable character of the country there are scarcely any roads accessible to wheeled carriages, and, the great causeway of Shah Abbas along the coast has in many places even disappeared under the jungle.

Before it reaches the plains it receives a great number of small streams from impenetrable, saturated and much broken mountainous districts, where the dense and varied vegetation seems to fight for every square foot of ground.

To-day the harem is impenetrable, while " any one declining to stand as the grand-vizier passes is almost beaten to death."

In the middle of the 19th century the upper part of the district was an impenetrable waste.

The showerbath was scaled only to find that the water issued from an impenetrable bedding plane.

Klaus's privatization produced a rather circular, fairly complex and impenetrable structure of businesses in the Czech Republic.

I did not read it at the time I held it in my hands because it seemed too dense, too impenetrable.

Back down at stream level you reach a hairpin bend with an inlet entering on the right from an impenetrable fissure.

Instantly the girl was engulfed in a swirling, thick impenetrable fog which pixie led her into the field of gorse.

In places the lack of precision in the use of terms and concepts makes the book impenetrable.

Few researchers can breach the seemingly impenetrable barriers of the medieval period.

Portable and personal, they pose a virtually impenetrable barrier to fraud.

To what extent can anything possibly good come of this nonsense which is utterly impenetrable?

First there is the ' Flow Country ', an area of wild and almost impenetrable bogs and moorland.

Another great book we have discussed is Grant Morrison's Invisibles, a sprawling work which, on first examination seems somewhat impenetrable.

And he reaches a whole world of otherwise impenetrable international market's in the process.

The top end of Curraghard remains impenetrable even five months on.

A series of small pitches descends to -130 m where the way on becomes impenetrable.

However South's defense proved impenetrable with keeper Tim Poole stopping various shots in the last 15 minutes.

However, no password-protected system of data storage and retrieval can be made entirely impenetrable.

Again I noticed how dark the water is in the deeper lochs, almost inky black and seemingly impenetrable.