impenetrable
adjectiveUnable to be entered or passed through; also impossible to understand or interpret.
Impossible to understand
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Clear all filtersUnable to be entered or passed through; also impossible to understand or interpret.
Impossible to understand
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Essential or urgently necessary.
Domineering and expecting immediate obedience.
Not allowing a substance to pass through.
Rudely disrespectful; sometimes, irrelevant to the matter.
Rudely disrespectful
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Remaining calm and undisturbed under pressure.
Not allowing passage through; figuratively, unaffected by an influence.
Acting hastily on impulse without enough consideration.
Unable to be appeased or persuaded to relent.
Not seeming reasonable or believable.
To put a plan, decision, or method into effect.
A possible consequence or a meaning suggested without being stated directly.
Suggested meaning
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Understood or suggested without being stated directly.
To collapse inward or undergo internal breakdown.
To collapse inward or undergo internal breakdown
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To ask urgently and earnestly.
To suggest or communicate something indirectly.
To make poor or seriously reduce available resources.
Unlikely to happen or to be true.
Done or spoken with little or no advance preparation.
With little preparation
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Conduct or expression considered improper or unsuitable.
Rudely bold or disrespectful.
To challenge the truth, integrity, or validity of something.
Acting on a sudden urge without much prior consideration.
Freedom from punishment or adverse consequences for wrongdoing.
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