invulnerable

See also: invulnérable

English

Etymology

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

Adjective

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

Derived terms

• invulnerableness

Related terms

• invulnerability
• invulnerably

Translations

incapable of being wounded

Armenian: please add this translation if you can Belarusian: непаража́льны (njeparažálʹny) Bulgarian: неуязви́м (bg) (neujazvím) Catalan: invulnerable (ca) Czech: nezranitelný Dutch: onkwetsbaar (nl) Esperanto: nevundebla French: invulnérable (fr) German: unverwundbar (de) Greek: απρόσβλητος (el) (aprósvlitos), άτρωτος (el) (átrotos) Hungarian: sebezhetetlen (hu) Italian: invulnerabile (it) Latin: invulnerābilis, atrōtus Norwegian: Bokmål: usårbar Polish: niewrażliwy (pl) Romanian: invulnerabil (ro) Russian: неуязви́мый (ru) (neujazvímyj) Slovak: nezraniteľný Spanish: invulnerable (es) Swedish: osårbar (sv) Ukrainian: невразли́вий (nevrazlývyj)

unanswerable, irrefutable

Hungarian: megtámadhatatlan (hu)

References

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “invulnerable”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “invulnerable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin invulnerābilis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [im.bul.nəˈɾab.blə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [iɱ.vul.nəˈɾab.blə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [iɱ.vul.neˈɾa.ble]

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Adjective

invulnerable m or f (masculine and feminine plural invulnerables)

1. invulnerable

   Antonym: vulnerable

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin invulnerābilis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /imbulneˈɾable/ [ĩm.bul.neˈɾa.β̞le]
• Rhymes: -able
• Syllabification: in‧vul‧ne‧ra‧ble

Adjective

invulnerable m or f (masculine and feminine plural invulnerables)

1. invulnerable

   Antonym: vulnerable

Related terms

• invulnerabilidad

Further reading

• “invulnerable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025