i Register
In some senses, impenetrable is marked as figuratively. Watch for register when choosing this word.
adj
Not penetrable.
The fortress is impenetrable, so it cannot be taken.
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.
Opaque; obscure; not translucent or transparent.
When night falls, she cloaks the world in impenetrable darkness.
Incomprehensible; fathomless; inscrutable.
Business jargon makes this document impenetrable—I can’t understand it.
noun
A person not openly given to friendship.
I should lose the reputation that I am gradually acquiring among our impenetrables here, were I to confess the excitement which I felt at the idea of entering his house—the house of that great general under whose command you made your first charge.