a material impervious to water; steel impervious to bullets; someone impervious to argument.
He remained impervious to all Nell's sulks and blandishments.
ETS has long claimed that its aptitude test are virtually impervious to special preparation.
It could not pass through material impervious to water such as mica.
a transparent paper-like product that is impervious to moisture and used to wrap candy or cigarettes etc..
Indeed, in a globalized world, viruses are impervious to lines drawn on maps. That fact ought to make us ill at ease.
This height of the base of the 152-foot figure was necessary to make Miss Liberty impervious to the high winds of the bay. (AP Photo/FS)
While the formal rules can be changed overnight, the informal constraints are much more impervious to change and impose a powerful drag on abrupt change.
The recent angry exchanges were prompted by a decades-old border dispute over which the two countries went to war in 1962, and which has proved impervious to 13 rounds of negotiations since.
impervious to moral persuasion.
Her grace was impervious to hints.
How do they train themselves to be so impervious to reality?
a substance for packing a joint or coating a porous surface to make it impervious to gas or liquid.
And what policy would supply any useful options at all for Somalia, a wasteland that appears to be impervious to all forms of outside meddling, benevolent or malign?
There was one man impervious to obstacles, impatient with petty calculation, undisturbed by latent tensions: the father of the European Community, Jean Monnet.
With his strict demeanour and his impeccable manner of dress he was for a long time considered impervious to any kind of attack, even though he haad made quite a number of enemies.
This material is impervious to rainwater.
Land-fast sea ice clings to the shore, impervious to ocean currents.
Get married for five years: She start change of more and more unbearably vulgar, more and more impervious to reason.
That means it USES less power than other watches, and the display is impervious to glare. It's also easy on the eyes.
A material impervious to water.
If you do this, you will be impervious to coercion and no one can ever hold you back.
And while exact Numbers will undoubtedly turn out to be different, the underlying trends are relatively impervious to all but the most severe or disruptive shocks.
This also makes the painting impervious to water.
The superfluid is capable of flowing through narrow capillaries and channels that are impervious to most gases and certainly to all liquids.
Closest to land, land-fast sea ice clings to the shore, impervious to ocean currents.
It is, though, surprisingly inert. A lump of graphite or a diamond will sit happily on a laboratory bench without bursting into flames, or even rusting, and is impervious to the action of water.
The toads emit a poison that attacks the heart of predators. But meat ants are impervious to this.
At ordinary temperatures silicon is impervious to air, but at high temperatures it reacts with oxygen, forming a layer of silica that does not react further.
