Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for Impregnable
impregnable, adj. [Fr.] (webplay: assault, fortress, moved, taken).
- Impenetrable; imperceptible; [fig.] invisible; hidden; not seeable; not revealed; [metaphor] puzzling; unclear; incomprehensible.
- Unassailable; inviolable; intact; not reducible; [fig.] divine; sacrosanct; eternal; everlasting.
- Invincible; incorruptible; [fig.] everlasting; not really subject to death.
- Not subject; not subservient; not amenable; not yielding; not succumbing; not susceptible.
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