IMPENETRABLE


Meaning of IMPENETRABLE in English

adj.1 that cannot be penetrated.

2 inscrutable, unfathomable.

3 inaccessible to ideas, influences, etc.

4 Physics (of matter) having the property such that a body is incapable of occupying the same place as another body at the same time.

Derivatives:

impenetrability n. impenetrableness n. impenetrably adv.

Etymology: ME f. F imp{eacute}n{eacute}trable f. L impenetrabilis (as IN-(1), PENETRATE)

Oxford English vocab.      Оксфордский английский словарь.