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Definition of impenetrable in English: impenetrableadjective ɪmˈpɛnɪtrəb(ə)lɪmˈpɛnətrəb(ə)l 1Impossible to pass through or enter. 不可通行的，不能进入的 a dark, impenetrable forest 一片黑漆漆、难穿越的森林。 Example sentencesExamples - A youngster whose height and strength makes him an almost impenetrable barrier, he was an inspiring character.
- When present, it often forms dense, impenetrable thickets.
- The island is full of impenetrable virgin forest ill-suited to bikes, leaving the last leg to be completed on foot.
- Perhaps they had gotten caught up in an impenetrable area of the forest and had to find a way around instead of simply going through.
- Indeed, paddling up the creek is the best way to get into the dense surrounding forest, which is otherwise nearly impenetrable.
- The country night was one of an almost impenetrable darkness, accentuated by the occasional faint pinprick of light.
- It is no longer an impenetrable island wilderness.
- But the circle of outraged nobles had made an almost impenetrable wall surrounding the king and the prince.
- But I suppose it was too much to expect for him to have a black, twirly moustache and for her to cackle mysteriously from beneath an impenetrable black shroud.
- Unfortunately, her last escapade with William had taught her that bathrooms were virtually impenetrable fortresses.
- So the Romans decided it was not the primitive barbarians known as the Caledonii who had defeated them, but the vast impenetrable forest covering the country now known as Scotland.
- But for most parents the school classroom is a place as mysterious and impenetrable as their teenager's bedroom.
- To my horror though, I did not catch myself upon hitting the wall, but proceeded to pass through it into impenetrable darkness.
- Unfortunately, anything that involves more than a simple sense is more complicated and the barriers are often impenetrable.
- The spiky reed makes areas impenetrable, both for hunting and for cattle grazing.
- Growing an impenetrable thicket is an alternative option that could blend in with the view beyond the boundary.
- One million men and 1,500 tanks crossed the seemingly impenetrable forests in the Ardennes.
- In this way the seemingly impenetrable barriers that separated the two groups began to fall away.
- I just knew that one day the battalion of trees would overtake this weak stretch of highway and obscure its existence with an impenetrable density.
- In front of him was an impenetrable wall that he could not see his way around.
Synonyms impassable, unpassable, inaccessible, unnavigable, untraversable, pathless, trackless, untrodden dense, thick, overgrown, jungly, jungle-like archaic thickset - 1.1Physics (of matter) incapable of occupying the same space as other matter at the same time.
〔物理〕（物质）不可入性的
2Impossible to understand. 不可理解的，令人费解的 her expression was impenetrable Example sentencesExamples - I found some of the interviews in this book fascinating, others I found impenetrable; but my general feeling was that book didn't deliver.
- The impenetrable jargon of much postmodern writings is an issue as well.
- Ask a financial market dealer or analyst, and a spray of impenetrable jargon appears.
- The mystery is not impenetrable to intellect or unintelligible in itself; rather, it is not fully intelligible to us.
- But as a technology columnist, I'm in the business of coming up with confusing and impenetrable reactions to events around me.
- It misfires because almost every page of it is weighed down by nearly impenetrable academic jargon.
- Thus, the initiated are separated by high fences and impenetrable jargon from the ordinary folk.
- The first three chapters of the book are hard going and, at times, impenetrable and needlessly obscure.
- The wording of the document is really very easy to understand; it is not written in the usual impenetrable verbiage of the Treaties.
- For non-Londoners it must be an impenetrable puzzle.
- Lots of fields have their own jargon that is impenetrable to outsiders.
- He might just be the model academic in that he elucidates the otherwise impenetrable idiolect of abstruse theory by using the vernacular of Pop cult allusion, and he makes it seems as if the two were made for one another.
- Truth be told, our music is a smoky, impenetrable fortress.
- Music industry insiders tend to litter their conversation with talk of turnover, market share and the impenetrable jargon of contract negotiations.
- When you know someone really well you develop routines which are impenetrable to outsiders.
- The poet seems to be experiencing a kind of existential crisis in a hostile, opaque, impenetrable and uninhabitable world.
- Implacable, impenetrable, it may take five viewings to understand this movie, but it's time well spent.
- The creation of life in general and of the human person in particular is a thing we can know a little about, but also a thing which is shrouded in impenetrable mystery.
- I have to say I found the plot impenetrable.
- They forget, if they ever knew, that Shakespeare can seem impenetrable.
Synonyms incomprehensible, impossible to understand, unfathomable, fathomless, inexplicable, unintelligible, unclear, baffling, bewildering, puzzling, perplexing, confusing, abstruse, obscure, opaque, recondite, inscrutable, mysterious, cryptic, Delphic complex, complicated, difficult, hard archaic wildering rare insolvable
Derivativesnoun ɪmpɛnɪtrəˈbɪlɪtiɪmˌpɛnətrəˈbɪlədi The problems of secrecy, impenetrability, accountability, and representativeness, which have long been a focus for concern within the Community, are not addressed simply by giving added powers to the European Parliament. Example sentencesExamples - Their societal and emotional impenetrability is as resonant and relevant as when Mitchell penned them in 1947.
- Modern man among vast natural expanses, exhilarating waterfalls next to calm cherry blossoms, and the impenetrability of a forest alongside the openness of a bare field are some examples of the contrasts pictured.
- The dizzying power struggles in the household contribute to a plot that starts out pointedly enigmatic, and flirts with chaos and impenetrability before resolving itself into gentle ambiguity.
- At the same time, she conveys the character's impenetrability and pain.
adverb ɪmˈpɛnɪtrəbliɪmˈpɛnətrəbli Never mind the impenetrably named programs, what about the stuff that really matters: letters, music, video, e-mails, and all those useful nuggets picked up from the web? Example sentencesExamples - This is a London teeming with heavy-brogued Scotsmen and impenetrably accented Frenchmen.
- But, whereas many people fear it as some kind of unapproachably dense and impenetrably difficult cornerstone of the Western canon, few seem to realise that it's actually very funny - hilarious at points, even.
- Since that opening, in 1985, a system of arts funding has developed that is impenetrably complex, often manifestly unfair, and always unaccountable.
- The rules about married women's pensions are so impenetrably complicated that many of them continued to pay the reduced rate without understanding the consequences.
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OriginLate Middle English: via French from Latin impenetrabilis, from in- 'not' + penetrabilis 'able to be pierced', from the verb penetrare (see penetrate). Definition of impenetrable in US English: impenetrableadjectiveimˈpenətrəb(ə)lɪmˈpɛnətrəb(ə)l 1Impossible to pass through or enter. 不可通行的，不能进入的 a dark, impenetrable forest 一片黑漆漆、难穿越的森林。 Example sentencesExamples - But for most parents the school classroom is a place as mysterious and impenetrable as their teenager's bedroom.
- I just knew that one day the battalion of trees would overtake this weak stretch of highway and obscure its existence with an impenetrable density.
- In front of him was an impenetrable wall that he could not see his way around.
- In this way the seemingly impenetrable barriers that separated the two groups began to fall away.
- When present, it often forms dense, impenetrable thickets.
- A youngster whose height and strength makes him an almost impenetrable barrier, he was an inspiring character.
- The spiky reed makes areas impenetrable, both for hunting and for cattle grazing.
- Perhaps they had gotten caught up in an impenetrable area of the forest and had to find a way around instead of simply going through.
- Growing an impenetrable thicket is an alternative option that could blend in with the view beyond the boundary.
- The island is full of impenetrable virgin forest ill-suited to bikes, leaving the last leg to be completed on foot.
- So the Romans decided it was not the primitive barbarians known as the Caledonii who had defeated them, but the vast impenetrable forest covering the country now known as Scotland.
- One million men and 1,500 tanks crossed the seemingly impenetrable forests in the Ardennes.
- Indeed, paddling up the creek is the best way to get into the dense surrounding forest, which is otherwise nearly impenetrable.
- Unfortunately, anything that involves more than a simple sense is more complicated and the barriers are often impenetrable.
- To my horror though, I did not catch myself upon hitting the wall, but proceeded to pass through it into impenetrable darkness.
- Unfortunately, her last escapade with William had taught her that bathrooms were virtually impenetrable fortresses.
- But I suppose it was too much to expect for him to have a black, twirly moustache and for her to cackle mysteriously from beneath an impenetrable black shroud.
- The country night was one of an almost impenetrable darkness, accentuated by the occasional faint pinprick of light.
- But the circle of outraged nobles had made an almost impenetrable wall surrounding the king and the prince.
- It is no longer an impenetrable island wilderness.
Synonyms impassable, unpassable, inaccessible, unnavigable, untraversable, pathless, trackless, untrodden - 1.1Physics (of matter) incapable of occupying the same space as other matter at the same time.
〔物理〕（物质）不可入性的
2Impossible to understand. 不可理解的，令人费解的 her expression was impenetrable Example sentencesExamples - The impenetrable jargon of much postmodern writings is an issue as well.
- Truth be told, our music is a smoky, impenetrable fortress.
- The mystery is not impenetrable to intellect or unintelligible in itself; rather, it is not fully intelligible to us.
- When you know someone really well you develop routines which are impenetrable to outsiders.
- The poet seems to be experiencing a kind of existential crisis in a hostile, opaque, impenetrable and uninhabitable world.
- Ask a financial market dealer or analyst, and a spray of impenetrable jargon appears.
- I found some of the interviews in this book fascinating, others I found impenetrable; but my general feeling was that book didn't deliver.
- Music industry insiders tend to litter their conversation with talk of turnover, market share and the impenetrable jargon of contract negotiations.
- Lots of fields have their own jargon that is impenetrable to outsiders.
- He might just be the model academic in that he elucidates the otherwise impenetrable idiolect of abstruse theory by using the vernacular of Pop cult allusion, and he makes it seems as if the two were made for one another.
- The creation of life in general and of the human person in particular is a thing we can know a little about, but also a thing which is shrouded in impenetrable mystery.
- It misfires because almost every page of it is weighed down by nearly impenetrable academic jargon.
- Implacable, impenetrable, it may take five viewings to understand this movie, but it's time well spent.
- Thus, the initiated are separated by high fences and impenetrable jargon from the ordinary folk.
- The first three chapters of the book are hard going and, at times, impenetrable and needlessly obscure.
- But as a technology columnist, I'm in the business of coming up with confusing and impenetrable reactions to events around me.
- I have to say I found the plot impenetrable.
- They forget, if they ever knew, that Shakespeare can seem impenetrable.
- For non-Londoners it must be an impenetrable puzzle.
- The wording of the document is really very easy to understand; it is not written in the usual impenetrable verbiage of the Treaties.
Synonyms incomprehensible, impossible to understand, unfathomable, fathomless, inexplicable, unintelligible, unclear, baffling, bewildering, puzzling, perplexing, confusing, abstruse, obscure, opaque, recondite, inscrutable, mysterious, cryptic, delphic
OriginLate Middle English: via French from Latin impenetrabilis, from in- ‘not’ + penetrabilis ‘able to be pierced’, from the verb penetrare (see penetrate). |