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Impenetrable vs Illegible - What's the difference?

impenetrable | illegible |

As adjectives the difference between impenetrable and illegible

is that impenetrable is not penetrable while illegible is not clear enough to be read; unreadable; not legible or decipherable.

impenetrable

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Not penetrable.
    • The fortress is impenetrable , so it cannot be taken.
  • * '>citation
    • 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

    illegible

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not clear enough to be read; unreadable; not legible or decipherable.

    • Antonyms

    * legible

    Synonyms

    * dirty * foul * indecipherable * marked-up * unclear * undecipherable * unreadable

    See also

    * illegibly