adj
Meaning 1
Impossible to eliminate or destroy; impregnable.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
inexpugnable
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˌɪnɛkˈspʌɡnəbəl/
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adjective satellite
Meaning 2
incapable of being overcome, challenged or refuted
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- an impregnable argument
- impregnable self-confidence
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: impregnable
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin inexpugnābilis. Morphologically, from in- + expugn + -able.
Across languages
Translations
27 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: مَنِيع (manīʕ) — impregnable, unconquerable
- Bulgarian: непревзимаем (neprevzimaem) — impregnable, unconquerable
- Bulgarian: непристъпен (nepristǎpen) — impregnable, unconquerable
- Catalan: inexpugnable — impregnable, unconquerable
- Chinese Mandarin: 不能攻占的 (bùnéng gōngzhàn de) — impregnable, unconquerable
- Chinese Mandarin: 堅不可摧 /坚不可摧 (jiānbùkěcuī) — impregnable, unconquerable
- Dutch: oninneembaar — impregnable, unconquerable
- Dutch: onneembaar — impregnable, unconquerable
- Dutch: ongenaakbaar — impregnable, unconquerable
- Estonian: vallutamatu — impregnable, unconquerable
- Finnish: järkkymätön — impregnable, unconquerable
- Finnish: horjumaton — impregnable, unconquerable
- Finnish: valloittamaton — impregnable, unconquerable
- French: inexpugnable — impregnable, unconquerable
- Galician: inexpugnábel — impregnable, unconquerable
- German: unbezwinglich — impregnable, unconquerable
- German: uneinnehmbar — impregnable, unconquerable
- Greek: απόρθητος (apórthitos) — impregnable, unconquerable
- Italian: inespugnabile — impregnable, unconquerable
- Latin: inexpugnabilis — impregnable, unconquerable
- Polish: niepokonany — impregnable, unconquerable
- Portuguese: inexpugnável — impregnable, unconquerable
- Russian: неприступный (nepristupnyj) — impregnable, unconquerable
- Serbo-Croatian: неосвојив (neosvojiv) — impregnable, unconquerable
- Serbo-Croatian: несавладив (nesavladiv) — impregnable, unconquerable
- Spanish: inexpugnable — impregnable, unconquerable
- Swedish: ointaglig — impregnable, unconquerable