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Arduous vs Impenetrable - What's the difference?

arduous | impenetrable | Related terms |

As adjectives the difference between arduous and impenetrable

is that arduous is needing or using up much energy; testing powers of endurance while impenetrable is not penetrable.

arduous

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Needing or using up much energy; testing powers of endurance.
  • The movement towards a peaceful settlement has been a long and arduous political struggle.
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  • (obsolete) burning; ardent
  • Where flames the arduous Spirit of Isidore. — Cary.
  • (rft-sense) Difficult or exhausting to traverse.
  • * 1974 , Sue Bowder, The American biking atlas & touring guide , page 77:
  • Beyond the river, an arduous slope rises 3286 feet in 13 miles.
  • * 1999 , Scott Ciencin, Mike Fredericks, Dinoverse :
  • Mike looked up from the arduous mountain trail. They'd been climbing for five hours and he was beginning to feel irritable.
  • * 2006 , Jack W. Plunkett, Plunkett's Entertainment & Media Industry Almanac 2006 :
  • Survivor reaches as many as 28 million viewers who watch contestants win a new Pontiac or guzzle Mountain Dew after scaling an arduous cliff.

    Synonyms

    * burdensome * demanding * exhausting * fatiguing * laborious * onerous * strenuous * wearisome

    impenetrable

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Not penetrable.
  • The fortress is impenetrable , so it cannot be taken.
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  • 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.
  • (figuratively) ; inscrutable.
  • Business jargon makes this document impenetrable , I can't understand it.

    Antonyms

    * penetrable