impregnable

Post date: Oct 15, 2014 3:49:9 AM

Impregnable means it is rather challenging to approach or overcome. Impregnable means it is rather difficult to capture, catch, enter by force, or reach with success. Looking at the usage of the word, an impregnable argument, an impregnable castle, impregnable self-confidence, Some related words could be invulnerable, strong, secure, unbeatable, invincible, unassailable, indestructible, unshakable, unconquerable, immovable, The word of impregnable appears twice in Moby Dick. 

• For I was not prepared to see Father Mapple after gaining the height, slowly turn round, and stooping over the pulpit, deliberately drag up the ladder step by step, till the whole was deposited within, leaving him impregnable in his little Quebec

• Unerringly impelling this dead, impregnable, uninjurable wall, and this most buoyant thing within; there swims behind it all a mass of tremendous life, only to be adequately estimated as piled wood is

• Although the Conservatives lost the 1945 election by a landslide, by that point he was impregnable and proved so for another 10 years, despite illness and infirmity. From BBC

• Notre Dame’s Fighting Irish overcame potentially fatal offensive turnovers and the first signs of vulnerability from the hitherto impregnable defense to survive North Carolina 50 -43.

•  Think tanks thus mind the gap between academia and Washington, providing a platform for researchers eager to see their work applied outside the ivory tower (which is looking more and more like an impregnable silo these days).From Time. 

• That's where a password manager comes in handy. These secure apps save all your passwords and even craft superstrong new ones, encrypted for your security and stored in a virtually impregnable virtual safe for your peace of mind. From San Antonio Express News.