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English
Etymology
From Middle French invincible, from Latin invincibilis (“unconquerable”), from in- (“not”) + vincibilis (“conquerable”), from vincere (“to conquer”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
invincible (not comparable)
- Impossible to defeat, destroy, or kill; too powerful to be defeated or overcome.
- Synonyms: unconquerable, undefeatable
- Antonyms: conquerable, defeatable, vincible, weak
c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. The First Part , 2nd edition, part 1, London: Richard Iones, , published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act (please specify |act=II or III), scene i:You know our armie is inuincible:
As many circumcized Turkes we haue,
And warlike bands of Chriſtians renyed,
As hath the Ocean or the Terrene ſea
Small drops of water, […]
2013 May 31, Echosmith, Jeffery David, and Jesiah Dzwonek, “Cool Kids”, in Talking Dreams, performed by Echosmith:Nothing in this world could / Ever bring them down / Yeah, they're invincible / And she's just in the background
Derived terms
Translations
impossible to defeat, destroy or kill
- Armenian: անհաղթ (hy) (anhaġtʻ), անհաղթելի (hy) (anhaġtʻeli)
- Azerbaijani: basılmaz, məğlubedilməz, yenilməz (az)
- Belarusian: неперамо́жны (njepjeramóžny)
- Bulgarian: непобеди́м (bg) (nepobedím)
- Catalan: invencible (ca) m or f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 無敵/无敌 (zh) (wúdí), 不敗/不败 (zh) (bùbài)
- Czech: neporazitelný m
- Dutch: onoverwinnelijk (nl), onoverwinnelijke (nl)
- Esperanto: nevenkebla
- Finnish: voittamaton (fi)
- French: invincible (fr)
- German: unbesiegbar (de)
- Greek: αήττητος (el) (aḯttitos), ακαταμάχητος (el) (akatamáchitos), ακατανίκητος (el) (akataníkitos), ανίκητος (el) (aníkitos), ανυπέρβλητος (el) (anypérvlitos), απόρθητος (el) (apórthitos)
- Ancient: ἀδάμας (adámas), (Epic) ἀάατος (aáatos), δύσμαχος (dúsmakhos), ἀνίκητος (aníkētos), δυσπολέμητος (duspolémētos), ἄμαχος (ámakhos), δυσπάλαιστος (duspálaistos), ἀπρόσμαχος (aprósmakhos), ἀδήριτος (adḗritos)
- Icelandic: ósigrandi
- Irish: dochloíte, dosháraithe
- Italian: invincibile (it) m or f, imbattibile (it) m or f
- Japanese: 倒せない (taosenai), 無敵の (ja) (muteki no), 不敗の (ja) (fuhai no), 難攻不落の (ja) (nankōfuraku no)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: نەبەز (nebez)
- Latin: invictus
- Latvian: neuzvarams
- Lithuanian: nenugalimas, neįveikiamas
- Macedonian: непобедлив (nepobedliv)
- Malay: tidak terkalahkan
- Malayalam: അജയ്യ (ml) (ajayya), അജയ്യനായ (ajayyanāya)
- Manx: neuvainshtyragh
- Norwegian: uovervinnelig
- Old English: unoferswīþendlīċ
- Polish: niezwyciężony (pl)
- Portuguese: invencível (pt)
- Romanian: invincibil (ro), imbatabil (ro)
- Russian: непобеди́мый (ru) (nepobedímyj)
- Sanskrit: अजेय (sa) (ajeya), अषाढ (sa) (aṣāḍha), दुराधर (sa) (durādhara), दुराधर्ष (sa) (durādharṣa), दुर्जय (sa) (durjaya), अजित (sa) (ajita)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: непобѐдив, непобјѐдив
- Roman: nepobèdiv (sh), nepobjèdiv (sh)
- Slovak: neporaziteľný
- Slovene: nepremagljiv (sl)
- Spanish: invencible (es)
- Swedish: oövervinnerlig (sv)
- Tagalog: masusupil
- Tamil: வெல்லமுடியாத (vellamuṭiyāta)
- Thai: อยู่ยงคงกระพัน
- Turkish: yenilmez
- Ukrainian: неперемо́жний (neperemóžnyj)
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Noun
invincible (plural invincibles)
- Someone or something that cannot be defeated, destroyed, or killed.
- Antonym: vincible
Translations
someone who cannot be defeated, destroyed or killed
Further reading
- “invincible”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “invincible”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “invincible”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
French
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French invincible, from Latin invincibilis (“unconquerable”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
invincible (plural invincibles)
- invincible
Further reading