invincible

From Middle French invincible, from Latin invincibilis (“unconquerable”), from in- (“not”) +‎ vincibilis (“conquerable”), from vincere (“to conquer”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈvɪn.sə.bəl/, /ɪnˈvɪn.sɪ.bəl/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈvɪn.sə.bəl/, /ɪnˈvɪn.sɪ.bəl/

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• Rhymes: -ɪbəl
• Hyphenation: in‧vin‧cib‧le

invincible (not comparable)

1. Impossible to defeat, destroy, or kill; too powerful to be defeated or overcome.

   Synonyms: unconquerable, undefeatable, unvanquishable

   Antonyms: conquerable, defeatable, vincible, weak, vanquishable

   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act (please specify |act=II or III), scene i:

     You know our armie is inuincible:
     As many circumcized Turkes we haue,
     And warlike bands of Chriſtians renyed,
     As hath the Ocean or the Terrene ſea
     Small drops of water, […]

   • 2013 May 31, Echosmith, Jeffery David, and Jesiah Dzwonek, “Cool Kids”, in Talking Dreams‎^[1], performed by Echosmith:

     Nothing in this world could / Ever bring them down / Yeah, they're invincible / And she's just in the background

   • 2016, Sia, Chris Braide, “Unstoppable”, in This Is Acting‎^[2], performed by Sia:

     I'm unstoppable / I'm a Porsche with no brakes / I'm invincible / Yeah, I win every single game

invincible (plural invincibles)

1. Someone or something that cannot be defeated, destroyed, or killed.

   Antonym: vincible

• “invincible”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “invincible”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “invincible”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Inherited from Middle French invincible, from Latin invincibilis (“unconquerable”).

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.vɛ̃.sibl/
• Homophone: invincibles

invincible (plural invincibles)

1. invincible

• “invincible”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.