impervious
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vi adjective
1.
not permitting penetration or passage; impenetrable: The coat is impervious to rain.
2.
incapable of being injured or impaired: impervious to wear and tear.
3.
incapable of being influenced, persuaded, or affected: impervious to reason; impervious to another's suffering.
Related forms
im·per·vi·ous·ly, adverb
im·per·vi·ous·ness, noun
Synonyms
3. invulnerable, closed.
3. invulnerable, closed.
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| —adj (foll by to) | |
| 1. | not able to be penetrated, as by water, light, etc; impermeable |
| 2. | not able to be influenced (by) or not receptive (to): impervious to argument |
| imperviable or imperviable | |
| —adj | |
| im'perviously or imperviable | |
| —adv | |
| im'perviousness or imperviable | |
| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
impervious
1650, from L. impervius "that cannot be passed through," from in- "not" + pervius "letting things through," from per "through" + via "road."
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Example sentences
Scientists thought the protective atmospheric layer in the stratosphere was more impervious to such intruders.
The moral argument against taxation has the virtue of being impervious to such trivial considerations.
It accounted for those dismaying shifts in tone which so often spoiled his effects and to which he seemed so oddly impervious.
First, she was not impervious to the possibility that she can be wrong.
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