Invulnerable
[ɪn'vʌln(ə)rəb(ə)l] or [ɪn'vʌlnərəbl]
Definition
(adj.) immune to attack; impregnable; 'gunners raked the beach from invulnerable positions on the cliffs' .
Editor: Margaret--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Incapable of being wounded, or of receiving injury.
(a.) Unanswerable; irrefutable; that can not be refuted or convinced; as, an invulnerable argument.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Secure from injury, that cannot be wounded.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See VULNERABLE]
Edited by Lester
Definition
adj. that cannot be wounded.—ns. Invulnerabil′ity Invul′nerableness.—adv. Invul′nerably.
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Examples
- As to nerves, Mr Merdle is of a cool temperament, and not a sensitive man: is about as invulnerable, I should say, as Achilles. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- So, she was invulnerable. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- As the wife of Rosedale--the Rosedale she felt it in her power to create--she would at least present an invulnerable front to her enemy. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- All her life, she had sought to make herself invulnerable, unassailable, beyond reach of the world's judgment. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It is your religion--your strange, self-reliant, invulnerable creedwhose influence seems to clothe you in, I know not what, unblessed panoply. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- It seemed to her that self-esteem would have made her invulnerable--that it was her own dishonour which put a fearful solitude about her. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- She was bright and invulnerable, quite free and happy, perfectly liberated in her self-possession. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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