What does invulnerable mean?

Definitions for invulnerable
ɪnˈvʌl nər ə bəlin·vul·ner·a·ble

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. invulnerableadjective

    immune to attack; impregnable

    "gunners raked the beach from invulnerable positions on the cliffs"

Wiktionary

  1. invulnerableadjective

    Incapable of being wounded, or of receiving injury; not vulnerable.

  2. invulnerableadjective

    Unanswerable; irrefutable; unable to be damaged by an attack or convinced; as, an invulnerable argument.

  3. Etymology: From invulnerabilis, from vulnerabilis, from vulnero, from vulnus.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Invulnerableadjective

    Not to be wounded; secure from wound.

    Etymology: invulnerable, Fr. invulnerabilis, Lat.

    Our cannon's malice vainly shall be spent
    Against th' invulnerable clouds of heav'n. William Shakespeare.

    Nor vainly hope
    To be invulnerable in those bright arms,
    That mortal dint none can resist. John Milton.

    Vanessa, though by Pallas taught,
    By love invulnerable thought,
    Searching in books for wisdom's aid,
    Was in the very search betray'd. Jonathan Swift, Miscel.

ChatGPT

  1. invulnerable

    Invulnerable refers to an entity, person, object, or system that is impervious or immune to damage, harm, or emotional distress; it cannot be wounded, defeated, or negatively affected in any way. It may also signify a state of being resistant to criticism or impervious to any form of attack.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Invulnerableadjective

    incapable of being wounded, or of receiving injury

  2. Invulnerableadjective

    unanswerable; irrefutable; that can not be refuted or convinced; as, an invulnerable argument

  3. Etymology: [L. invulnerabilis: cf. F. invulnrable. See In- not, and Vulnerable.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Invulnerable

    in-vul′nėr-a-bl, adj. that cannot be wounded.—ns. Invulnerabil′ity, Invul′nerableness.—adv. Invul′nerably.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of invulnerable in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of invulnerable in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of invulnerable in a Sentence

  1. John Stephens:

    I live in a world in which characters can come back frequently, dC has been really flexible about characters who we in the canon know, 'They survive, because they have to do X later.' Those characters, as we'll see going forward, even in this season, they are not invulnerable. Some of those characters who everyone will expect to survive will not survive, which will make things exciting because all the characters have a target on their back.

  2. Charles de LEUSSE:

    The killer feels invulnerable. In this, he is vulnerable. (Le tueur se croit invulnérable. En cela, il est vulnérable)

  3. Robert Green:

    While healthy young people as a group are less likely to have severe symptoms with COVID, they have to understand that some of them will become very ill and will even die from this infection, no one should assume youth makes them invulnerable.

  4. Erik Pevernagie:

    The invulnerable, matchless and exclusive live a life like dazzling fish in a scintillating seascape behind glass. Everybody may admire them, nobody can touch them and there is no fear or guilt in overexposing opulence and fortune.( "Keeping up with the Joneses")

  5. Sir Thomas Browne:

    I am the happiest man alive. I have that in me that can convert poverty into riches, adversity to prosperity, and I am more invulnerable than Achilles; fortune hath not one place to hit me.

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