"impenetrable" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [Catalan]

IPA: [im.pə.nəˈtɾab.blə] [Balearic, Central], [im.pe.neˈtɾa.ble] [Valencian] Forms: impenetrables [feminine, masculine, plural]
Etymology: From Latin impenetrābilis. Etymology templates: {{uder|ca|la|impenetrābilis}} Latin impenetrābilis Head templates: {{ca-adj}} impenetrable m or f (masculine and feminine plural impenetrables)
  1. impenetrable Tags: feminine, masculine
    Sense id: en-impenetrable-ca-adj-ozJ7g7lT Categories (other): Catalan entries with incorrect language header, Catalan undefined derivations

Adjective [English]

IPA: /ɪmˈpɛnətɹəbəl/, /ɪmˈpɛnɪtɹəbəl/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-impenetrable.wav [Southern-England]
Etymology: From Middle French impenetrable, from Latin impenetrabilis. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*pen-}}, {{bor|en|frm|impenetrable}} Middle French impenetrable, {{der|en|la|impenetrabilis}} Latin impenetrabilis Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} impenetrable (not comparable)
  1. Not penetrable. Tags: not-comparable Synonyms (not penetrable): impregnable, unfathomable
    Sense id: en-impenetrable-en-adj-e504FPP5 Disambiguation of 'not penetrable': 86 1 13
  2. (figuratively) Incomprehensible; fathomless; inscrutable. Tags: figuratively, not-comparable
    Sense id: en-impenetrable-en-adj-v1yOCAX3
  3. Opaque; obscure; not translucent or transparent. Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-impenetrable-en-adj-kcoF4YJp
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: inpenetrable [misspelling] Related terms: impermeable

Noun [English]

IPA: /ɪmˈpɛnətɹəbəl/, /ɪmˈpɛnɪtɹəbəl/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-impenetrable.wav [Southern-England] Forms: impenetrables [plural]
Etymology: From Middle French impenetrable, from Latin impenetrabilis. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*pen-}}, {{bor|en|frm|impenetrable}} Middle French impenetrable, {{der|en|la|impenetrabilis}} Latin impenetrabilis Head templates: {{en-noun}} impenetrable (plural impenetrables)
  1. A person not openly given to friendship. Translations (incomprehensible; inscrutable): неразбираем (nerazbiraem) (Bulgarian), impenetrable (Catalan), 难以理解的 (Chinese Mandarin), 费解的 (Chinese Mandarin), nesrozumitelný (Czech), onbegrijpelijk (Dutch) Translations (not penetrable): непроницаем (nepronicaem) (Bulgarian), непроходим (neprohodim) (Bulgarian), impenetrable (Catalan), 不能通过的 (Chinese Mandarin), 不能渗透的 (Chinese Mandarin), neproniknutelný (Czech), nedobytný (Czech), ondoordringbaar (Dutch), läpitunkematon (Finnish), impénétrable (French), undurchlässig (German), αδιαπέραστος (adiapérastos) (Greek), impenetrābilis (Latin), invius (Latin), ugjennomtrengelig (Norwegian Bokmål), ugjennomtrengeleg (Norwegian Nynorsk), ugjennomtrengjeleg (Norwegian Nynorsk), impenetrável (Portuguese), impenetrabil (Romanian), de nepătruns (Romanian), de nestrăpuns (Romanian), непроница́емый (nepronicájemyj) (english: impermeable) (Russian), непроходи́мый (neproxodímyj) (Russian), impenetrable (Spanish), непроникний (nepronyknyj) (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-impenetrable-en-noun-OOPeBmfO Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 28 3 13 56
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: inpenetrable [misspelling]

Adjective [Spanish]

IPA: /impeneˈtɾable/, [ĩm.pe.neˈt̪ɾa.β̞le] Forms: impenetrables [feminine, masculine, plural]
Rhymes: -able Etymology: From Latin impenetrābilis. Etymology templates: {{uder|es|la|impenetrābilis}} Latin impenetrābilis Head templates: {{es-adj}} impenetrable m or f (masculine and feminine plural impenetrables)
  1. impenetrable Tags: feminine, masculine Derived forms: impenetrabilidad
    Sense id: en-impenetrable-es-adj-ozJ7g7lT Categories (other): Spanish entries with incorrect language header, Spanish undefined derivations

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "text": "The fortress is impenetrable, so it cannot be taken."
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          "text": "Business jargon makes this document impenetrable, I can't understand it."
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          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
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          "sense": "not penetrable",
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          "code": "fr",
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          "sense": "not penetrable",
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "not penetrable",
          "word": "undurchlässig"
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        {
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "adiapérastos",
          "sense": "not penetrable",
          "word": "αδιαπέραστος"
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          "sense": "not penetrable",
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          "sense": "not penetrable",
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          "code": "nb",
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          "sense": "not penetrable",
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          "code": "nn",
          "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
          "sense": "not penetrable",
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        {
          "code": "nn",
          "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
          "sense": "not penetrable",
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        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "not penetrable",
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          "sense": "not penetrable",
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        {
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "not penetrable",
          "word": "de nepătruns"
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          "code": "ru",
          "english": "impermeable",
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          "word": "непроница́емый"
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          "code": "ru",
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          "sense": "not penetrable",
          "word": "непроходи́мый"
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          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
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          "sense": "not penetrable",
          "word": "непроникний"
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          "roman": "nerazbiraem",
          "sense": "incomprehensible; inscrutable",
          "word": "неразбираем"
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          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "incomprehensible; inscrutable",
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    }
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}

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      "sense": "antonym(s) of “not penetrable”",
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          "text": "The fortress is impenetrable, so it cannot be taken."
        },
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          "ref": "2012, John Branch, “Snow Fall : The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in New York Time",
          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "Business jargon makes this document impenetrable, I can't understand it."
        }
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          "inscrutable",
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        "(figuratively) Incomprehensible; fathomless; inscrutable."
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        "figuratively",
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          "text": "When night falls, she cloaks the world in impenetrable darkness."
        }
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        "Opaque; obscure; not translucent or transparent."
      ],
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          "Opaque",
          "opaque#English"
        ],
        [
          "obscure",
          "obscure"
        ],
        [
          "translucent",
          "translucent"
        ],
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          "transparent",
          "transparent"
        ]
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      ]
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  ],
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      "ipa": "/ɪmˈpɛnətɹəbəl/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɪmˈpɛnɪtɹəbəl/"
    },
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        "Southern-England"
      ],
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    }
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      "sense": "not penetrable",
      "word": "impregnable"
    },
    {
      "sense": "not penetrable",
      "word": "unfathomable"
    },
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      "tags": [
        "misspelling"
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      "word": "inpenetrable"
    }
  ],
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}

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        "plural"
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  "pos": "noun",
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      "glosses": [
        "A person not openly given to friendship."
      ],
      "links": [
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          "friendship",
          "friendship"
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    }
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      "ipa": "/ɪmˈpɛnətɹəbəl/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɪmˈpɛnɪtɹəbəl/"
    },
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        "misspelling"
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    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "nepronicaem",
      "sense": "not penetrable",
      "word": "непроницаем"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "neprohodim",
      "sense": "not penetrable",
      "word": "непроходим"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "not penetrable",
      "word": "impenetrable"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "not penetrable",
      "word": "不能通过的"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "not penetrable",
      "word": "不能渗透的"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "not penetrable",
      "word": "neproniknutelný"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "not penetrable",
      "word": "nedobytný"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "not penetrable",
      "word": "ondoordringbaar"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "not penetrable",
      "word": "läpitunkematon"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "not penetrable",
      "word": "impénétrable"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "not penetrable",
      "word": "undurchlässig"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "adiapérastos",
      "sense": "not penetrable",
      "word": "αδιαπέραστος"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "not penetrable",
      "word": "impenetrābilis"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "not penetrable",
      "word": "invius"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "not penetrable",
      "word": "ugjennomtrengelig"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "not penetrable",
      "word": "ugjennomtrengeleg"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "not penetrable",
      "word": "ugjennomtrengjeleg"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "not penetrable",
      "word": "impenetrável"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "not penetrable",
      "word": "impenetrabil"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "not penetrable",
      "word": "de nepătruns"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "not penetrable",
      "word": "de nestrăpuns"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "english": "impermeable",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "nepronicájemyj",
      "sense": "not penetrable",
      "word": "непроница́емый"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "neproxodímyj",
      "sense": "not penetrable",
      "word": "непроходи́мый"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "not penetrable",
      "word": "impenetrable"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "nepronyknyj",
      "sense": "not penetrable",
      "word": "непроникний"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "nerazbiraem",
      "sense": "incomprehensible; inscrutable",
      "word": "неразбираем"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "incomprehensible; inscrutable",
      "word": "impenetrable"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "incomprehensible; inscrutable",
      "word": "难以理解的"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "incomprehensible; inscrutable",
      "word": "费解的"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "incomprehensible; inscrutable",
      "word": "nesrozumitelný"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "incomprehensible; inscrutable",
      "word": "onbegrijpelijk"
    }
  ],
  "word": "impenetrable"
}

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      "word": "impenetrabilidad"
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
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        "2": "la",
        "3": "impenetrābilis"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin impenetrābilis",
      "name": "uder"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Latin impenetrābilis.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "impenetrables",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "impenetrable m or f (masculine and feminine plural impenetrables)",
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    }
  ],
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  ],
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  "lang_code": "es",
  "pos": "adj",
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        "Requests for translations of Spanish quotations",
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        "Rhymes:Spanish/able/5 syllables",
        "Spanish 5-syllable words",
        "Spanish adjectives",
        "Spanish entries with incorrect language header",
        "Spanish epicene adjectives",
        "Spanish lemmas",
        "Spanish terms derived from Latin",
        "Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Spanish terms with quotations",
        "Spanish undefined derivations"
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        {
          "english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "ref": "1867, Cesare Cantù, Historia universal, 8, page 118",
          "text": "como una muralla impenetrable",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "impenetrable"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "impenetrable",
          "impenetrable#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ]
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  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/impeneˈtɾable/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ĩm.pe.neˈt̪ɾa.β̞le]"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-able"
    }
  ],
  "word": "impenetrable"
}

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