invincible

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French invincible, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin invincibilis (“unconquerable”), from in- (“not”) + vincibilis (“conquerable”), from vincere (“to conquer”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈvɪns.ɪbl̩/

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• Rhymes: -ɪbl̩

Adjective

invincible (not comparable)

1. Impossible to defeat, destroy or kill; too powerful to be defeated or overcome.

Synonyms

• unconquerable
• undefeatable

Antonyms

• conquerable
• defeatable
• vincible
• weak

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
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 無敵／无敌 (zh) (wúdí), 无敌 (zh) (wúdí), 不敗／不败 (zh) (bùbài), 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)

  Ancient: ἀδάμας (adámas)

• Italian: invincibile m/f, imbattibile m/f
• Japanese: 倒せない (taosenai), 無敵の (muteki no), 不敗の (ja) (fuhai no), 難攻不落の (ja) (nankōfuraku no)
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• Kurdish:

  Sorani:

• Macedonian: непобедлив (nepobedliv)
• Norwegian: uovervinnelig
• Polish: niezwyciężony (pl)
• Portuguese: invencível (pt)
• Russian: непобеди́мый (ru) (nepobedímyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: непобедив

  Roman: nepobediv (sh)

• Slovak: neporaziteľný
• Slovene: nepremagljiv (sl)
• Spanish: invencible (es) m or f
• Swedish: oövervinnerlig (sv)
• Turkish: yenilmez
• Ukrainian: неперемо́жний (neperemóžnyj)

Noun

invincible (plural invincibles)

1. Someone or something that cannot be defeated, destroyed or killed.

Antonyms

• vincible

Translations

someone who cannot be defeated, destroyed or killed

• Armenian: անհաղթ (hy) (anhaġtʻ)
• Bulgarian: непобедим (bg) (nepobedim)
• Catalan: invencible
• Dutch: onoverwinnelijke (nl) n
• French: invincible (fr)
• Greek: ανίκητος (el) m (aníkitos)
• Hungarian: legyőzhetetlen (hu)
• Icelandic: ósigrandi
• Indonesian: tak terkalahkan
• Japanese: 無敵 (muteki)
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• Kurdish:

  Sorani:

• Latin: invictus
• Malay: kebal
• Polish: niezwyciężony (pl) m, niezwyciężona f
• Portuguese: invencível (pt) m
• Russian: неуязвимый (ru) (neujazvimyj)
• Spanish: invencible (es)
• Turkish: yenilmez
• Zulu: engenakunqotshwa

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.

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French

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin invincibilis.

Adjective

invincible (plural invincibles)

1. invincible

Further reading

• “invincible”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.