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Impenetrable vs Inviolable - What's the difference?

impenetrable | inviolable | Synonyms |

Impenetrable is a synonym of inviolable.


As adjectives the difference between impenetrable and inviolable

is that impenetrable is impenetrable while inviolable is not violable; not to be infringed.

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

    inviolable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not violable; not to be infringed.
  • Not susceptible of violence, or of being profaned, corrupted, or dishonoured.
  • Incapable of being injured or invaded.

    • Derived terms

    * inviolability * inviolableness * inviolably

    Synonyms

    * (not violable) unbreakable, unbreachable * (not susceptible of being profaned) holy, sacred, sacrosanct * (incapable of being injured or invaded) invincible, unassailable

    Antonyms

    * (not violable) incompliable (incapable of being complied''); violable, breakable (''capable of being violated ) * (not susceptible of being profaned) violable * (incapable of being injured or invaded) invadable

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