impenetrable

See also: impénétrable

English

From Middle French impenetrable, from Latin impenetrabilis.

impenetrable (not comparable)

Not penetrable.
The fortress is impenetrable, so it cannot be taken.
- 2012, John Branch, “Snow Fall : The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in New York Time‎:
  
  The 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.
(figuratively) Incomprehensible; inscrutable.
Business jargon makes this document impenetrable, I can't understand it.

not penetrable

Greek: αδιαπέραστος (el) m (adiapérastos)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: ugjennomtrengelig

Nynorsk: ugjennomtrengeleg, ugjennomtrengjeleg
Romanian: impenetrabil (ro), de nepătruns, de nestrăpuns
Russian: (impermeable) непроница́емый (ru) (nepronicájemyj), непроходи́мый (ru) (neproxodímyj)
Spanish: impenetrable
Ukrainian: непроникний (nepronyknyj)

incomprehensible; inscrutable

From Latin impenetrabilis.

impenetrable (plural impenetrables)

impenetrable
- 1867, Cesare Cantù, Historia universal, 8, page 118:
  como una muralla impenetrable

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