impervious
Meaning of impervious
adjective
- not allowing fluid to pass through.
an impervious layer of basaltic clay
- unable to be affected by.
he worked, apparently impervious to the heat
mid 17th century: from Latin impervius (from in- ‘not’ + pervius ‘pervious’) + -ous.
Information about impervious
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Hyphenation of impervious
im-per-vi-ous
- It consists of 4 syllables and 10 chars.
- impervious is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
impervious synonyms
Meaning imperviable:
Meaning not allowing fluid to pass through:
Meaning impossible to pass through or enter:
Meaning (of a fortified position) unable to be captured or broken into:
Meaning impervious to water:
Meaning closely sealed, fastened, or fitted so that no water enters or passes through:
Meaning fasten or close securely:
impervious antonyms
Meaning (of a material or membrane) allowing liquids or gases to pass through it:
Words that rhyme with impervious
aerobious, amphibious, anaerobious, antiscabious, dubious, helobious, hematobious, indubious, microbious, nonamphibious, rabious, rubious, scabious, stibious, superbious, superdubious, triphibious, undubious, Delicious, Procious, acinacious, ametoecious, androdioecious, andromonoecious, appendicious, artificious, astucious, atrocious, audacious, auspicious, autecious, autoecious, avaricious, bibacious, bodacious, boldacious, bowdacious, capacious, capricious, cilicious, coconscious, cogracious, conconscious, conscious, contumacious, curvacious, delicious, dicacious, diecious, dioecious
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