impervious
/ɪmˈpɝ.vi.əs/ adjective C1- Unaffected or unable to be affected by something. · The man was completely impervious to the deception we were trying.
- Preventive of any penetration; impenetrable, impermeable, particularly of water. · Although patchworked and sagging, the roof proved impervious to the weather.
- Immune to damage or effect. · The old car seemed to be impervious to the wear and tear of age.
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The sea, knowing what was required of her, threw over them her weeds, encircled them with coral, and encrusted them with shells; the whole was cemented by two hundred years beneath these almost impervious depths, for a revolution carried away the emperor who wished to make the trial, and only left the documents proving the manufacture of the jars and their descent into the sea.
“Are you quite impervious to good advice?”
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