Meaning

3 senses
  1. Of a fortress or other fortified place: able to withstand all attacks; impenetrable, inconquerable, unvanquishable.

    sturmfrei, unangreifbar, unbezwingbar

    непристу́пныйnepristúpnyj

  2. (figuratively)Too strong to be defeated or overcome; invincible.

    unangreifbar, unbezwingbar, uneinnehmbar

    недосту́пныйnedostúpnyj, непристу́пныйnepristúpnyj, неуязви́мыйneujazvímyj

  3. Capable of being impregnated; impregnatable.

    capable of conceiving

Examples

3 sentences
  1. Islam will remain an impregnable fortress against wokeism.

  2. Islam will remain an impregnable fortress against the tyranny of wokeism.

  3. Layla's virtue was impregnable.

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Translations

5 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
of a fortress or other fortified place: able to withstand all attacks — see also impenetrable, inconquerable, unvanquishable:
too strong to be defeated or overcome — see also invincible:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
of a fortress or other fortified place: able to withstand all attacks — see also impenetrable, inconquerable, unvanquishable:

Origin

From Late Middle English imprenable, impregnable (“impossible to capture, impregnable”), f

From Late Middle English imprenable, impregnable (“impossible to capture, impregnable”), from Old French imprenable (modern French imprenable (“impregnable”)), from im- (a variant of in- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + prenable (“(military) of a building, position, etc.: takable”) (from prendre (“to take”) + -able (suffix meaning ‘creating an effect or influence’)). Prendre is derived from Latin prēndere, present active infinitive of prēndō, a variant of prehendō (“to catch, lay hold of; to grasp; to grab, snatch; to seize, take”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʰed- (“to find; to hold; to seize, take”). The intrusive g in the English word was modelled after words like deign and reign.

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Forms

more impregnable, most impregnable
Comparativemore impregnable Lesson
Superlativemost impregnable Lesson

regular

Synonyms

11 synonyms
Close in meaning

Antonyms

5 antonyms

Word family

4 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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