impenetrable reasoning
- noun
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razonamiento impenetrable
- The professor's impenetrable reasoning left many students confused during the lecture.
Examples
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He tends to use impenetrable reasoning when arguing, making it hard for others to follow his point.
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I couldn't follow her impenetrable reasoning during the debate.
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After reading the dense manuscript, she criticized its impenetrable reasoning in her review.
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His impenetrable reasoning left everyone confused.
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After reading the dense manuscript, she criticized its impenetrable reasoning in her review.
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He tends to use impenetrable reasoning when arguing, making it hard for others to follow his point.
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The professor's impenetrable reasoning left many students confused during the lecture.
Synonyms
A statement that is hard to understand and makes people confused
How Understandable
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'reasoning that is extremely difficult to understand' is directly and compositionally derived from 'impenetrable' (difficult to grasp) plus 'reasoning' (the act of logical thought). This follows a standard adjective + noun pattern that is literal and cross-linguistically common, so a learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Impenetrable reasoning compares an argument to a very thick wall: impenetrable means you cannot get through it and reasoning means the ideas behind an argument. So, if you cannot get through the wall, you cannot reach the ideas, and the phrase means 'reasoning that is very hard or impossible to understand'.