Strenuous vs Impenetrable - What's the difference?
strenuous | impenetrable | Related terms |
Urgent, ardent, zealous.
Requiring great exertion.
* 1961 : J. A. Philip. Mimesis in the ''Sophistês'' of Plato . In: Proceedings and Transactions of the American Philological Association 92. p. 467.
Not penetrable.
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(figuratively) ; inscrutable.
Strenuous is a related term of impenetrable.
As adjectives the difference between strenuous and impenetrable
is that strenuous is urgent, ardent, zealous while impenetrable is impenetrable.strenuous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- We can achieve this god?likeness only by unremitting and strenuous effort of the intellect.
Synonyms
* earnest * eager * vigorous * determined * resoluteDerived terms
* strenuously * strenuousnessExternal links
* * *impenetrable
English
Adjective
(-)- The fortress is impenetrable , so it cannot be taken.
- 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.
- Business jargon makes this document impenetrable , I can't understand it.