invulnerable

adjective in·vul·ner·a·ble \ (ˌ)in-ˈvəl-n(ə-)rə-bəl , -nər-bəl \

Updated on: 18 Apr 2018

Definition of invulnerable

1 : incapable of being wounded, injured, or harmed

2 : immune to or proof against attack : impregnable

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invulnerability

play \(ˌ)in-ˌvəl-n(ə-)rə-ˈbi-lə-tē\ noun

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invulnerableness

play \(ˌ)in-ˈvəl-n(ə-)rə-bəl-nəs, -nər-bəl-\ noun

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invulnerably

play \(ˌ)in-ˈvəl-n(ə-)rə-blē, -nər-blē\ adverb

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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 of invulnerable from the Web

Second, by mortgaging all of its real property holdings to a corporation in England, RIC may have made these assets invulnerable to court judgments against them in America.

— win mccormack, The New Republic, "Bhagwan’s Bottom Line I," 12 Apr. 2018
Putin says Russia has tested an array of new nuclear weapons invulnerable to enemy intercept.

— Fox News, "Significant moments in Putin's 18 years of power," 18 Mar. 2018
Nor can the country be made invulnerable to missiles or terrorists.

— richard haass, Time, "What the Global Elite Can Learn From Donald Trump," 25 Jan. 2018
But that business model depends more than most people realize on interpretation of law that are widely agreed on hardly invulnerable to challenge.

— robert levine, Billboard, "Acting U.S. Register of Copyrights Sounds Alarm Over Legal Group's 'Pseudo-Version of the Copyright Act'," 18 Jan. 2018
But Aston also wanted her to team to honor the edict emblazoned on those T-shirts, no matter how invulnerable Geno Auriemma’s Huskies appeared to be.

— nick moyle, Houston Chronicle, "Texas takes No. 1 Connecticut to wire, but comes up short," 15 Jan. 2018
But Aston also wanted her to team to honor the edict emblazoned on those T-shirts, no matter how invulnerable Geno Auriemma’s Huskies appeared to be.

— nick moyle, San Antonio Express-News, "Texas takes UConn to wire, but comes up short," 15 Jan. 2018
The nation is only the sixth country in the world to put ballistic nuclear weapons at sea, a strategy designed to render at least part of the country’s nuclear arsenal invulnerable to surprise attack.

— kyle mizokami, Popular Mechanics, "Someone Left a Hatch Open and Crippled India’s $2.9 Billion Submarine," 8 Jan. 2018
Stations in Elite Dangerous are enormous and invulnerable to human weapons (programmatically so), and when a player attacks one, they're chopped into hamburger by the station's automatic overpowering response.

— lee hutchinson, Ars Technica, "It’s happening: Aliens are shooting up human space stations in Elite Dangerous [Updated]," 15 Dec. 2017

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