Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an impenetrable manner; so as to be impenetrable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In an impenetrable manner or state; imperviously.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In an
impenetrable manner or state;imperviously .
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Examples
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The three designers working on the MyCouncil project explained that it's an interface that lets the pubic ask simple questions to their council, bypassing the complex and impenetrably dense council websites where it can be hard to find the information you need, MP's surgery or unnecessarily lengthy phone call.
Young Rewired State 2011: Fresh blood, fresh data and fresh hacks 2011
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Her previous work tended toward the impenetrably performance art-y, but her "Double Fantasy" contributions toggle between frosty pop and Grace Jones-like Euro disco.
Lennon/Ono's 'Double Fantasy Stripped Down,' getting real and getting results Allison Stewart 2010
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The rules become pretty meaningless when influence can be exercised by impenetrably opaque offshore vehicles.
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I began a fumbling, stumbling study of flamenco and quickly discovered how dauntingly vast and impenetrably arcane the subject is.
A Conversation with Sarah Bird, author of the novel The Flamenco Academy 2010
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This step renders a lot of fat and breaks down the fibers that make the skin impenetrably hard.
Meathead Goldwyn: Lip Smackin' Pigskin Cracklins Meathead Goldwyn 2011
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Saigon, a city in chaos 36 years ago, is a place that seems almost impenetrably Vietnamese but also wholly open to the world's new rhythms.
The Motorbike Economy Daniel Henninger 2011
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This step renders a lot of fat and breaks down the fibers that make the skin impenetrably hard.
Meathead Goldwyn: Lip Smackin' Pigskin Cracklins Meathead Goldwyn 2011
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I wish it were otherwise and that I were somehow inured and impenetrably defended against other peoples 'feelings about me or impervious to thoughtlessly tossed about words, but I'm not.
Judith Acosta, LISW, CHT: Fear and Verbal First Aid for Children 2010
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Golf Association is impenetrably deep rough, and super-quick greens.
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There's been an unfortunate conflation between the idea that something with 400 people can't be impenetrably private -- which is quite true -- and that such things shouldn't be private.
A tale of two -- actually, many more than two -- list serves 2010
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