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Restricted vs Impenetrable - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between restricted and impenetrable

is that restricted is limited within bounds while impenetrable is not penetrable.

As a verb restricted

is past tense of restrict.

restricted

English

Verb

(head)
  • (restrict)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Limited within bounds.
  • Available only to certain authorized groups of people.
  • One of the classifications of the secrecy of an official document.
  • (grammar) Qualified.

    • Anagrams

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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