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impervious
/ɪmˈpɝ.vi.əs/
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What does impervious mean?
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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This cover was laced with cords to the girder work, and cover-strips rendered the whole impervious to wet.
Diving-dresses were also prepared, which through this impervious covering allowed the divers to observe the bottom of the sea.
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The skin portion is impervious to water, but the mumme admits the rain about as readily as it does the sunlight.
He is an adroit magician, able to assume almost any form at will, and impervious to any amount of ridicule and insult.
Every other part is contained in the general wrapper, formed of thick, compact white satin, difficult to break and impervious to moisture.