impervious
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7.5
- adjective
- /ɪmˈpɜrviəs/
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impermeable
- The waterproof jacket is impervious to rain and keeps you dry in all weather conditions.
- impervious surfaces
- impervious to water
- impervious to change
He'd become impervious to that impulse.
- He'd become impervious to that impulse.
- But he has said that he would make the southern border impervious.
- But on an internal level, unique pairings also make us impervious to things going wrong in our lives.
- Instead, you're a Gray rock that offers no reflection back and that and that you have to be impervious to their cruelty and their criticism.
- So the the kind of removal of God from the equation, your suggestion is that God makes a person impervious to countervailing responses.
- He said the Sun is impervious to the logic of reason and highly sensitive to the logic of force, right?
- And but once again, I'm not impervious to, you know, human emotion and all the shit that I talk about in that song.
- Focus on fulfillment and you will make yourself impervious to the sways that is happiness.
- Focus on fulfilment and you will make yourself impervious to the sways that is happiness.
- He says the canvas is impervious.
- Her doing that shows athletes that they don't have to wear that mask and say I am, I am impervious because that's the big fear, right?
Examples
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Egypt's regime remains highly centralized and impervious to serious challenge within the existing institutional system.
Academic text (1999) -
Furthermore, optical disks are extremely robust and relatively impervious to wear or to standard magnetic fields.
Academic text (1996) -
- This ship is impervious to weather.
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And the island has one single tree growing on it, a Bay tree which is thought to be impervious to lightning.
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Totally impervious to electromagnetic energy of any kind.
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And that means that it's quite impervious to most chemical reactions.
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A chip totally impervious to magnetic pulse damage.
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The boundary is impervious to transfer of heat like a thermos.
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They are impervious to heat and magnetism.
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Yet while Washington's approach to drugs remains impervious to change, grassroots initiatives are threatening the status quo.
Academic text (2012)
Synonyms
49
3.9
Able to keep working when it meets heat, water, or chemicals
35
1.6
Not letting water pass through
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7.3
Not possible to enter or go through
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2.6
Completely closed so water cannot get in or out
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3.4
Keeps some water out without being fully waterproof
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6.6
Not allowing water or air to pass through
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3.6
Does not let water soak in easily
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6.5
A material that does not let water or air pass through
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4.4
Not letting water or other liquids soak in
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3.1
Made to stop wind from passing through clothing or tents
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3.2
Not letting liquid or gas escape from a container
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2.7
Keeping rain out so things stay dry
Treated so clothes or shoes do not let water in
Not allowing water or wind to enter a building
A material that does not soak up liquids
Not able to take in liquids or other materials
Not able to be taken in by the body or by materials
Not letting light pass through
Antonyms
How Impervious
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Impervious comes from the parts im- 'not' and via 'way', so it literally means 'no way through'. That's why something impervious does not let water or other things pass, and why a person impervious to criticism is not affected — nothing gets through.