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imprenable

imprenable is the obsolete form of impregnable.

Meaning of impregnable

Adjective (1)

impregnable (comparative more impregnable, superlative most impregnable)

  1. 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.1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “The Battering-ram”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 376
  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...1664; first published 1694, Robert South, “A Sermon Preached before the University, at Christ-Church, Oxon, 1664”, in Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions. […], volume II, London: […]...

Adjective (2)

impregnable (comparative more impregnable, superlative most impregnable)

  1. Capable of being impregnated; impregnatable.
    • The reproductive strategies of troop members, especially those of impregnable females, are suggested to influence patterns of range use.1979 November, Dennis R. Rasmussen, “Correlates of Patterns of Range Use of a Troop of Yellow Baboons (Papio cynocephalus). I. Sleeping Sites, Impregnable Females, Births, and Male Emigrations and...
    Antonyms:
    unimpregnable

Forms of imprenable

comparativemore imprenable
superlativemost imprenable

Questions about imprenable

What is imprenable the obsolete form of?
Imprenable is the obsolete form of impregnable.

Words near imprenable in the dictionary

  1. impregned
  2. impregning
  3. impregns
  4. imprejudicate
  5. impremeditate
  6. imprenable
  7. impreparation
  8. imprepared
  9. impresa
  10. impresari
  11. impresarial

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Adapted from Wiktionary: imprenable (page history and authors); impregnable (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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