What does the word impervious mean?
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Imperviously.
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Permitting no passage.
Part of speech: adverb
Part of speech: adjective
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Usage examples for impervious
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I argued the matter with her at first; but women, I find, are impervious as a rule to masculine argument, and it is a mistake to reason with them. – The Danvers Jewels, and Sir Charles Danvers by Mary Cholmondeley
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The guide shewed me where the prisoners used to be kept- in a dungeon, apparently impervious to every glimmer of day- light, and every breath of air. – A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
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The daylight was so lowered by the impervious roof of cloud overhead that it scarcely reached further into Lord Mountclere's entrance- hall than to the splays of the windows, even but an hour or two after midday; and indoors the glitter of the fire reflected itself from the very panes, so inconsiderable were the opposing rays. – The Hand of Ethelberta by Thomas Hardy