invulnerable

adjective

in·​vul·​ner·​a·​ble (ˌ)in-ˈvəl-n(ə-)rə-bəl How to pronounce invulnerable (audio)
-nər-bəl
1
: incapable of being wounded, injured, or harmed
2
: immune to or proof against attack : impregnable
invulnerableness noun
invulnerably adverb

Examples of invulnerable in a Sentence

teenagers who think they are invulnerable The candidate seems to be in an invulnerable position. The team seems invulnerable this season.
Recent Examples on the Web The Leopard 2s performed well but were hardly invulnerable superweapons. Stephen Biddle, Foreign Affairs, 29 Jan. 2024 But its response is to inconvenience customers rather than beef up HP printers to be invulnerable to remote code execution via ink cartridges. Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 22 Jan. 2024 After dominating the pop culture landscape for over 10 years, a few lackluster releases showed the mighty MCU is not invulnerable. Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2024 Israelis felt almost completely invulnerable and certainly not vulnerable to a small terrorist army. Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2023 And regulators block most large movements of money in and out of the country, making China’s financial system nearly invulnerable to the kind of sudden departure of foreign money that touched off the Asian financial crisis in nearby countries in 1997 and 1998. Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2023 But this obvious truism doesn’t seem to apply to Donald Trump, who is viewed as invulnerable to everything from four indictments to a deranged online diatribe implying that Mark Milley, the outgoing chairman of the Joint Chiefs Staff, deserves to be executed for treason. Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 28 Sep. 2023 The mission, which was not confirmed by Russia, coincided with Ukraine’s Independence Day and appeared intended to show Ukrainian forces are able to stage ground operations in Crimea and that the peninsula is not invulnerable. Reuters, NBC News, 25 Aug. 2023 Unlike a silo, which is fixed in the ground, an airplane flying over the United States was pretty much invulnerable. Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 18 Aug. 2023

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Word History

Etymology

Latin invulnerabilis, from in- + vulnerare to wound — more at vulnerable

First Known Use

1595, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of invulnerable was in 1595

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Cite this Entry

“Invulnerable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/invulnerable. Accessed 19 Mar. 2024.

Kids Definition

invulnerable

adjective
in·​vul·​ner·​a·​ble (ˈ)in-ˈvəln-(ə-)rə-bəl How to pronounce invulnerable (audio)
-ˈvəl-nər-bəl
1
: impossible to wound, injure, or damage
2
: immune to or proof against attack : impregnable
invulnerably
-ˈvəln-(ə-)rə-blē How to pronounce invulnerable (audio)
-ˈvəl-nər-blē
adverb

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