Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Immune to attack; impregnable.
- adjective Impossible to damage, injure, or wound.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not vulnerable; incapable of being wounded, hurt, or harmed.
- Hence Not to be damaged or injuriously affected by attack: as, invulnerable arguments or evidence.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Incapable of being wounded, or of receiving injury.
- adjective Unanswerable; irrefutable; that can not be refuted or convinced.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Incapable of beingwounded , or of receivinginjury ; notvulnerable . - adjective
Unanswerable ;irrefutable ; unable to bedamaged by an attack orconvinced ; as, an invulnerable argument.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective immune to attack; impregnable
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The more invulnerable the Empire is, the more invulnerable is Canada.
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The mystic is, in short, invulnerable, and must be left, whether we relish it or not, in undisturbed enjoyment of his creed.
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The riveting actor, best known as the invulnerable RoboCop, has brilliantly hit the skids as Stan Liddy, a corrupt Miami PD officer who gets busted by Internal Affairs.
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He might have been called the invulnerable dwarf of the fray.
Les Miserables 2008
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Ianni points also to studies of so-called invulnerable adolescents -- those who develop into stable young adults in spite of coming from troubled homes, or other adversity.
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Its technology is so new, so revolutionary, that everyone assumes its so-called invulnerable defences will be impenetrable.
The White Ninja Lustbader, Eric 1990
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He might have been called the invulnerable dwarf of the fray.
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He might have been called the invulnerable dwarf of the fray.
Les Misérables Victor Hugo 1843
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The presence of an "invulnerable" nation among nations that are "vulnerable" means inevitable aggression and war, a perpetual menace to civilisation and humanity.
Essays in War-Time Further Studies in the Task of Social Hygiene Havelock Ellis 1899
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Still, its effects upon this "invulnerable" god were of a marked order.
The Ivory Child Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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