invulnerable

From Middle French invulnérable, from Latin invulnerābilis, from vulnerābilis, from vulnerō (“I wound”), from vulnus (“wound”).

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

• invulnerable in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
• invulnerable in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

From Latin invulnerābilis.

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /im.vul.nəˈɾa.blə/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /im.bul.nəˈɾa.blə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /im.vul.neˈɾa.ble/

invulnerable (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 (plural invulnerables)

1. invulnerable

   Antonym: vulnerable

• invulnerabilidad

• “invulnerable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014