Invulnerable

adj

adj ·5 syllables ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Incapable of being injured; not vulnerable. not-comparable

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

  2. 2
    Unanswerable; irrefutable. not-comparable

    "an invulnerable argument"

Adjective
  1. 1
    immune to attack; impregnable wordnet

Example

More examples

"Apart from his heel, Achilles was invulnerable."

Etymology

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

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