If you are imperviousto someone's actions, you are not affected or influenced by them.
She seems almost impervious to the criticism from all sides. [+ to]
The political system there has been impervious to all suggestions of change.
2. adjective
Something that is imperviousto water, heat, or a particular object is able to resist it or stop it passing through it.
The floorcovering you select will need to be impervious to water. [+ to]
...a layer of impervious rock.
Synonyms: resistant, sealed, impenetrable, invulnerable More Synonyms of impervious
More Synonyms of impervious
impervious in British English
(ɪmˈpɜːvɪəs) or imperviable (ɪmˈpɜːvɪəbəl)
adjective
1.
not able to be penetrated, as by water, light, etc; impermeable
2. (often postpositive; foll byto)
not able to be influenced (by) or not receptive (to)
impervious to argument
Derived forms
imperviously (imˈperviously)
adverb
imperviousness (imˈperviousness)
noun
impervious in American English
(ɪmˈpɜrviəs)
adjective
1.
incapable of being passed through or penetrated
a fabric impervious to moisture
2.
not affected by
with to
impervious to pity
Derived forms
imperviously (imˈperviously)
adverb
imperviousness (imˈperviousness)
noun
Word origin
L impervius: see in-2 & pervious
Examples of 'impervious' in a sentence
impervious
The big ski resorts are like bubbles that are almost impervious to bad news from the outside.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
The hardline austerity crowd remains impervious to experience.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
He seems strangely impervious to the damage the row has done to his image.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
The geisha myth is largely impervious to the history and reality of the lives of actual geisha.
The Times Literary Supplement (2011)
Rocky also seemed impervious to pain.
The Sun (2009)
Most people seem impervious to it.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
As he appears to be impervious to reason, you need to get tough.
The Sun (2015)
They remain stubbornly impervious to the changes, resist gentrification and politeness.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Yet Young insisted that he and his players remained impervious to the uncertainty over their future home.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Their loyalty was total, making them largely impervious to recruitment attempts.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The few westerners she knew seemed impervious to the muffled warnings of her Chinese friends.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Others seem impervious to the beliefs, values and motives of people they work with.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
It gives them an air of superiority that makes them seem impervious to other people'sfeelings.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
If the Mass is considered as a kind of production process, it again proves impervious to economic and cultural fads.
Christianity Today (2000)
In times of crisis old certainties come to the fore, and few things are as impervious to change as the British class system.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Governments remain impervious to the evidence that, in a democratic society, economic equality or transformation of value cannot be attained via education.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
But I feel a stirring of pride that so many of my countrymen have seen the hype - and remained impervious.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
1 (adjective)
Definition
not influenced by a feeling, argument, etc.
They are impervious to all suggestion of change.
Synonyms
unaffected
She seemed totally unaffected by what she'd heard.
immune
unmoved
She carried on criticizing me in this vein, but I was unmoved.
closed
untouched
He was completely untouched by her tears.
proof
The fortress was proof against attack.
invulnerable
unreceptive
unswayable
2 (adjective)
Definition
not letting water etc. through
The floorcovering will need to be impervious to water.
Synonyms
resistant
The body may be less resistant if it is cold.
sealed
impenetrable
The range forms an impenetrable barrier between Europe and Asia.
invulnerable
She assumed that her mother was invulnerable and all-powerful.
impassable
Many minor roads in the south remained impassable today.
hermetic
breaking the hermetic seal of the jar
impermeable
The canoe is made from an impermeable wood.
imperviable
Additional synonyms
in the sense of hermetic
Definition
sealed so as to be airtight
breaking the hermetic seal of the jar
Synonyms
airtight,
sealed,
shut
in the sense of impassable
Definition
(of terrain or roads) not able to be travelled through or over
Many minor roads in the south remained impassable today.
Synonyms
blocked,
closed,
obstructed,
impenetrable,
unnavigable
in the sense of impenetrable
Definition
impossible to get through
The range forms an impenetrable barrier between Europe and Asia.