vincible

English

Etymology

From Latin vincibilis (“conquerable”), from vincere (“to conquer”).

Adjective

vincible (not comparable)

1. Capable of being defeated or overcome; assailable or vulnerable.
   • a. 1628 (date written), John Hayward, The Life, and Raigne of King Edward the Sixt, London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press, and J. Lichfield at Oxford?] for Iohn Partridge, […], published 1630, →OCLC:

     He, not easily vincible in spirit […] drew his sword.

   • 1796, William Paley, A View of the Evidences of Christianity:

     vincible by human aid

Synonyms

• (capable of being defeated): conquerable, defeatable, weak

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “capable of being defeated”): invincible, unconquerable

Derived terms

• vincibility
• vincible ignorance
• vincibleness
• vincibly

Translations

capable of being defeated

• Bulgarian: победим (bg) (pobedim)
• Catalan: vencible (ca)
• Dutch: overwinnelijk
• French: vincible (fr)
• German: besiegbar (de)
• Italian: vincibile (it), battibile (it)
• Japanese: 倒せる (ja) (taoseru), 弱い (ja) (yowai)
• Portuguese: vencível (pt)
• Spanish: vencible

French

Adjective

vincible (plural vincibles)

1. vincible

Derived terms

• vinciblement

Further reading

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