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Impenetrable vs Perplexing - What's the difference?

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Impenetrable is a related term of perplexing.


As adjectives the difference between impenetrable and perplexing

is that impenetrable is impenetrable while perplexing is confusing or puzzling.

As a verb perplexing is

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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

    perplexing

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • confusing or puzzling
  • bewildering

    • Verb

    (head)