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Unintelligible vs Impenetrable - What's the difference?

unintelligible | impenetrable | Related terms |

Unintelligible is a related term of impenetrable.


As adjectives the difference between unintelligible and impenetrable

is that unintelligible is not intelligible; unable to be understood while impenetrable is impenetrable.

unintelligible

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Not intelligible; unable to be understood.

    • Antonyms

    * (l).

    See also

    * (l) * (l) * (l)

    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