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invincible

adj · noun · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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  • UK: /ɪnˈvɪn.sə.bəl/
  • UK: /ɪnˈvɪn.sɪ.bəl/
  • General-American: /ɪnˈvɪn.sə.bəl/
  • General-American: /ɪnˈvɪn.sɪ.bəl/
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -ɪbəl
  • CMU ARPABET: IH2 N V IH1 N S AH0 B AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

adj

Meaning 1

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

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: unconquerable, undefeatable, unvanquishable

Antonyms: conquerable, defeatable, vincible, weak, vanquishable

2

noun

Meaning 2

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

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: vincible

3

adjective satellite

Meaning 3

incapable of being overcome or subdued

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • an invincible army
  • her invincible spirit

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: unbeatable, unvanquishable

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

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

Across languages

Translations

104 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Armenian: անհաղթ (anhaġtʻ) — impossible to defeat, destroy or kill
  • Armenian: անհաղթելի (anhaġtʻeli) — impossible to defeat, destroy or kill
  • Azerbaijani: basılmaz — impossible to defeat, destroy or kill
  • Azerbaijani: məğlubedilməz — impossible to defeat, destroy or kill
  • Azerbaijani: yenilməz — impossible to defeat, destroy or kill
  • Belarusian: неперамо́жны (njepjeramóžny) — impossible to defeat, destroy or kill
  • Bulgarian: непобеди́м (nepobedím) — impossible to defeat, destroy or kill
  • Catalan: invencible — impossible to defeat, destroy or kill
  • Chinese Mandarin: 無敵 /无敌 (wúdí) — impossible to defeat, destroy or kill
  • Chinese Mandarin: 不敗 /不败 (bùbài) — impossible to defeat, destroy or kill
  • Czech: neporazitelný — impossible to defeat, destroy or kill
  • Danish: uovervindelig — impossible to defeat, destroy or kill
  • Dutch: onoverwinnelijk — impossible to defeat, destroy or kill
  • Esperanto: nevenkebla — impossible to defeat, destroy or kill
  • Finnish: voittamaton — impossible to defeat, destroy or kill
  • French: invincible — impossible to defeat, destroy or kill
  • German: unbesiegbar — impossible to defeat, destroy or kill
  • Greek: αήττητος (aḯttitos) — impossible to defeat, destroy or kill
  • Greek: ακαταμάχητος (akatamáchitos) — impossible to defeat, destroy or kill
  • Greek: ακατανίκητος (akataníkitos) — impossible to defeat, destroy or kill
  • Greek: ανίκητος (aníkitos) — impossible to defeat, destroy or kill
  • Greek: ανυπέρβλητος (anypérvlitos) — impossible to defeat, destroy or kill
  • Greek: απόρθητος (apórthitos) — impossible to defeat, destroy or kill
  • Ancient Greek: ἀδάμας (adámas) — impossible to defeat, destroy or kill
  • Ancient Greek: ἀάατος (aáatos) — impossible to defeat, destroy or kill
  • Ancient Greek: δύσμαχος (dúsmakhos) — impossible to defeat, destroy or kill
  • Ancient Greek: ἀνίκητος (aníkētos) — impossible to defeat, destroy or kill
  • Ancient Greek: δυσπολέμητος (duspolémētos) — impossible to defeat, destroy or kill
  • Ancient Greek: ἄμαχος (ámakhos) — impossible to defeat, destroy or kill
  • Ancient Greek: δυσπάλαιστος (duspálaistos) — impossible to defeat, destroy or kill
  • Ancient Greek: ἀπρόσμαχος (aprósmakhos) — impossible to defeat, destroy or kill
  • Ancient Greek: ἀδήριτος (adḗritos) — impossible to defeat, destroy or kill
  • Hindi: अजय (ajay) — impossible to defeat, destroy or kill
  • Hungarian: legyőzhetetlen — impossible to defeat, destroy or kill
  • Icelandic: ósigrandi — impossible to defeat, destroy or kill
  • Irish: dochloíte — impossible to defeat, destroy or kill
  • Irish: dosháraithe — impossible to defeat, destroy or kill
  • Italian: invincibile — impossible to defeat, destroy or kill
  • Italian: imbattibile — impossible to defeat, destroy or kill
  • Japanese: 倒せない (taosenai) — impossible to defeat, destroy or kill
  • Japanese: 無敵の (muteki no) — impossible to defeat, destroy or kill
  • Japanese: 不敗の (fuhai no) — impossible to defeat, destroy or kill
  • Japanese: 難攻不落の (nankōfuraku no) — impossible to defeat, destroy or kill
  • Central Kurdish: نەبەز (nebez) — impossible to defeat, destroy or kill
  • Latin: invictus — impossible to defeat, destroy or kill
  • Latvian: neuzvarams — impossible to defeat, destroy or kill
  • Lithuanian: nenugalimas — impossible to defeat, destroy or kill
  • Lithuanian: neįveikiamas — impossible to defeat, destroy or kill
  • Macedonian: непобедлив (nepobedliv) — impossible to defeat, destroy or kill
  • Malay: tidak terkalahkan — impossible to defeat, destroy or kill
  • Malayalam: അജയ്യ (ajayya) — impossible to defeat, destroy or kill
  • Malayalam: അജയ്യനായ (ajayyanāya) — impossible to defeat, destroy or kill
  • Manx: neuvainshtyragh — impossible to defeat, destroy or kill
  • Norwegian: uovervinnelig — impossible to defeat, destroy or kill
  • Old English: unoferswīþendlīċ — impossible to defeat, destroy or kill
  • Polish: niezwyciężony — impossible to defeat, destroy or kill
  • Portuguese: invencível — impossible to defeat, destroy or kill
  • Romanian: invincibil — impossible to defeat, destroy or kill
  • Romanian: imbatabil — impossible to defeat, destroy or kill
  • Russian: непобеди́мый (nepobedímyj) — impossible to defeat, destroy or kill
  • Sanskrit: अजेय (ajeya) — impossible to defeat, destroy or kill
  • Sanskrit: अषाढ (aṣāḍha) — impossible to defeat, destroy or kill
  • Sanskrit: दुराधर (durādhara) — impossible to defeat, destroy or kill
  • Sanskrit: दुराधर्ष (durādharṣa) — impossible to defeat, destroy or kill
  • Sanskrit: दुर्जय (durjaya) — impossible to defeat, destroy or kill
  • Sanskrit: अजित (ajita) — impossible to defeat, destroy or kill
  • Serbo-Croatian: непобѐдив — impossible to defeat, destroy or kill
  • Serbo-Croatian: непобјѐдив — impossible to defeat, destroy or kill
  • Serbo-Croatian: nepobèdiv — impossible to defeat, destroy or kill
  • Serbo-Croatian: nepobjèdiv — impossible to defeat, destroy or kill
  • Sicilian: mmincìvili — impossible to defeat, destroy or kill
  • Slovak: neporaziteľný — impossible to defeat, destroy or kill
  • Slovene: nepremagljiv — impossible to defeat, destroy or kill
  • Spanish: invencible — impossible to defeat, destroy or kill
  • Swedish: oövervinnerlig — impossible to defeat, destroy or kill
  • Tagalog: masusupil — impossible to defeat, destroy or kill
  • Tamil: வெல்லமுடியாத (vellamuṭiyāta) — impossible to defeat, destroy or kill
  • Thai: อยู่ยงคงกระพัน — impossible to defeat, destroy or kill
  • Thai: ไร้พ่าย — impossible to defeat, destroy or kill
  • Turkish: yenilmez — impossible to defeat, destroy or kill
  • Ukrainian: неперемо́жний (neperemóžnyj) — impossible to defeat, destroy or kill
  • Armenian: անհաղթ (anhaġtʻ) — someone who cannot be defeated, destroyed or killed
  • Bulgarian: непобедим (nepobedim) — someone who cannot be defeated, destroyed or killed
  • Catalan: invencible — someone who cannot be defeated, destroyed or killed
  • Dutch: onoverwinnelijke — someone who cannot be defeated, destroyed or killed
  • Finnish: voittamaton — someone who cannot be defeated, destroyed or killed
  • French: invincible — someone who cannot be defeated, destroyed or killed
  • German: Unbesiegbarer — someone who cannot be defeated, destroyed or killed
  • Greek: ανίκητος (aníkitos) — someone who cannot be defeated, destroyed or killed
  • Hungarian: legyőzhetetlen — someone who cannot be defeated, destroyed or killed
  • Icelandic: ósigrandi — someone who cannot be defeated, destroyed or killed
  • Indonesian: tak terkalahkan — someone who cannot be defeated, destroyed or killed
  • Japanese: 無敵 (muteki) — someone who cannot be defeated, destroyed or killed
  • Central Kurdish: نەبەز (nebez) — someone who cannot be defeated, destroyed or killed
  • Latin: invictus — someone who cannot be defeated, destroyed or killed
  • Malay: kebal — someone who cannot be defeated, destroyed or killed
  • Polish: niezwyciężony — someone who cannot be defeated, destroyed or killed
  • Polish: niezwyciężona — someone who cannot be defeated, destroyed or killed
  • Portuguese: invencível — someone who cannot be defeated, destroyed or killed
  • Russian: неуязви́мый (neujazvímyj) — someone who cannot be defeated, destroyed or killed
  • Russian: неуязви́мая (neujazvímaja) — someone who cannot be defeated, destroyed or killed
  • Spanish: invencible — someone who cannot be defeated, destroyed or killed
  • Turkish: yenilmez — someone who cannot be defeated, destroyed or killed
  • Zulu: engenakunqotshwa — someone who cannot be defeated, destroyed or killed
Real reading context

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