impregnable

英語（米国） (en-US) 英語（イギリス） (en-GB)

IPA（発音記号）

/ɪmˈpɹɛɡ.nəˌb(ə)l/

形容詞

比喩的用法

(military) Of a fortress or other fortified place: able to withstand all attacks; impenetrable, inconquerable, unvanquishable. / (figuratively) Too strong to be defeated or overcome; invincible.

日本語の意味

（軍事的に）攻撃に対して耐えうるほど堅固で、突き破ることができない、無敵な状態 / （比喩的に）打ち負かすことができない、圧倒的な強さを持つ状態

英語の意味

(military) Of a fortress or other fortified place: able to withstand all attacks; impenetrable, inconquerable, unvanquishable. / (figuratively) Too strong to be defeated or overcome; invincible.

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The ancient citadel's walls were so thick and well-manned that the fortress seemed impregnable even to the most determined army.

古代の城塞の壁は非常に厚く守備も堅固だったため、その要塞は最も決意の固い軍隊に対してさえもどんな攻撃にも耐え得るように見えた。

詳細

意味（1）

(military) Of a fortress or other fortified place: able to withstand all attacks; impenetrable, inconquerable, unvanquishable.

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—by the cord; and all obedient to one volition, as the smallest insect.

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意味（2）

(figuratively) Too strong to be defeated or overcome; invincible.

[A]s for the Friendſhip of the World; […] he may at laſt be no more able to get into the other's Heart, than he is to thruſt his Hand into a Pillar of Braſs. The Man's Affection, amidſt all theſe Kindneſſes done him, remaining wholly unconcerned, and impregnable; juſt like a Rock, which being plied continually by the Waves, ſtill throws them back again into the Boſom of the Sea that ſent them, but is not at all moved by any of them.

詳細

more impregnable （ comparative ）

most impregnable （ superlative ）