impervious
IPA: ɪmpˈɝviʌs
adjective
- Unaffected or unable to be affected by something.
- Preventive of any penetration; impenetrable, impermeable, particularly of water.
- Immune to damage or effect.
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Examples of "impervious" in Sentences
- He is impervious to their abuse.
- The Leviathan is impervious to all mortal weapons.
- An impervious jacket covers the outer wall of the core.
- The resulting finish is almost completely impervious to water.
- Her editing and style is meddlesome and impervious to critique.
- It is impervious to water and air, protecting the metal beneath.
- The impervious resin is partially impregnated into the side wall.
- Even gold was not impervious to the attacks of elemental fluorine.
- The floating member is impervious and is made of a flexible material.
- As in earlier times, neither is impervious to the temptations of the other.
- "Inner-directed" could be defined as impervious to outside criticism, advice or even reality.
- All of nature’s indicators speak of global strain, and yet we the relatively affluent remain impervious to it.
- Fletcher: "We need to go back and reduce the amount of what we call impervious surface, the amount of pavement and roofs that won't absorb water.
- We, the English, as you can see, are of average height, smoke a pipe, carry a rolled umbrella, go to the best schools, yet remain impervious to knowledge.
- New technology, a changing marketplace, and the emergence of a global economy are factors to which no nation and no economic system can remain impervious.
- In the execution of my recommendations in every department of the service he was always eager, capable, in one word impervious against every temptation to ease, unwearied by any labour, fearless of every danger.
- With the assistance of such guides, nothing could remain impervious or inaccessible; resistance was fatal; flight was impracticable; and the patient submission of helpless innocence seldom found mercy from the Barbarian conqueror.
- Modest increases in impervious surface due to construction of cottages can in most cases easily be offset by modest removal of impervious surfaces on affected lots, and/or disconnection of downspouts from pipes that discharge runoff to streets.