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invulnerable

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

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1

adj

Meaning 1

Incapable of being injured; not vulnerable.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

adj

Meaning 2

Unanswerable; irrefutable.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

Examples

  • an invulnerable argument

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

adjective

Meaning 3

immune to attack; impregnable

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • gunners raked the beach from invulnerable positions on the cliffs

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: vulnerable

History

Etymology

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

Across languages

Translations

25 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Belarusian: непаража́льны (njeparažálʹny) — incapable of being wounded
  • Bulgarian: неуязви́м (neujazvím) — incapable of being wounded
  • Catalan: invulnerable — incapable of being wounded
  • Czech: nezranitelný — incapable of being wounded
  • Dutch: onkwetsbaar — incapable of being wounded
  • Esperanto: nevundebla — incapable of being wounded
  • French: invulnérable — incapable of being wounded
  • German: unverwundbar — incapable of being wounded
  • Greek: απρόσβλητος (aprósvlitos) — incapable of being wounded
  • Greek: άτρωτος (átrotos) — incapable of being wounded
  • Hindi: अभेद्य (abhedya) — incapable of being wounded
  • Hungarian: sebezhetetlen — incapable of being wounded
  • Italian: invulnerabile — incapable of being wounded
  • Latin: invulnerābilis — incapable of being wounded
  • Latin: atrōtus — incapable of being wounded
  • Macedonian: неранлив (neranliv) — incapable of being wounded
  • Norwegian Bokmål: usårbar — incapable of being wounded
  • Polish: niewrażliwy — incapable of being wounded
  • Romanian: invulnerabil — incapable of being wounded
  • Russian: неуязви́мый (neujazvímyj) — incapable of being wounded
  • Slovak: nezraniteľný — incapable of being wounded
  • Spanish: invulnerable — incapable of being wounded
  • Swedish: osårbar — incapable of being wounded
  • Ukrainian: невразли́вий (nevrazlývyj) — incapable of being wounded
  • Hungarian: megtámadhatatlan — unanswerable, irrefutable