invulnerable

From Middle French invulnérable, from Latin invulnerābilis, from vulnerābilis, from vulnerō (“I wound”), from vulnus (“wound”), equivalent to in- +‎ vulnerable.

invulnerable (not comparable)

1. Incapable of being injured; not vulnerable.
   • 1979, Brian Daley, Han Solo at Stars' End:

     His gaze went to Hirken, who stood gloating behind invulnerable transparisteel.

2. Unanswerable; irrefutable.

   an invulnerable argument

• invulnerability
• invulnerably

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

Borrowed from Latin invulnerābilis.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [im.bul.nəˈɾab.blə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [iɱ.vul.nəˈɾab.blə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [iɱ.vul.neˈɾa.ble]

invulnerable m or f (masculine and feminine plural invulnerables)

1. invulnerable

   Antonym: vulnerable

From Latin invulnerābilis.

• IPA^(key): /imbulneˈɾable/ [ĩm.bul.neˈɾa.β̞le]
• Rhymes: -able
• Syllabification: in‧vul‧ne‧ra‧ble

invulnerable m or f (masculine and feminine plural invulnerables)

1. invulnerable

   Antonym: vulnerable

• “invulnerable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024