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Impenetrable vs Inexplicable - What's the difference?

impenetrable | inexplicable | Related terms |

Impenetrable is a related term of inexplicable.


As adjectives the difference between impenetrable and inexplicable

is that impenetrable is impenetrable while inexplicable is impossible to explain; not easily accounted for.

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

    inexplicable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Impossible to explain; not easily accounted for.

    • Derived terms

    * inexplicability * inexplicableness * inexplicably

    Synonyms

    * unexplainable

    Antonyms

    * explainable * explicable