invincible

English

Etymology

From Middle French invincible, from Latin invincibilis (“unconquerable”), from in- (“not”) +‎ vincibilis (“conquerable”), from vincere (“to conquer”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈvɪn.sə.bəl/, /ɪnˈvɪn.sɪ.bəl/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈvɪn.sə.bəl/, /ɪnˈvɪn.sɪ.bəl/

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• Rhymes: -ɪbəl

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

   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] 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^[1], performed by Echosmith:

     Nothing in this world could / Ever bring them down / Yeah, they're invincible / And she's just in the background

   • 2016, Sia, Chris Braide, “Unstoppable”, in This Is Acting‎^[2], performed by Sia:

     I'm unstoppable / I'm a Porsche with no brakes / I'm invincible / Yeah, I win every single game

Derived terms

• invincible ignorance
• invincibly

 

Translations

impossible to defeat, destroy or kill

• Armenian: անհաղթ (hy) (anhaġtʿ), անհաղթելի (hy) (anhaġtʿeli)
• 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)

Noun

invincible (plural invincibles)

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

   Antonym: vincible

Translations

someone who cannot be defeated, destroyed or killed

• Armenian: անհաղթ (hy) (anhaġtʿ)
• Bulgarian: непобедим (bg) (nepobedim)
• Catalan: invencible (ca) m or f
• Dutch: onoverwinnelijke (nl) n
• Finnish: voittamaton (fi)
• French: invincible (fr) ?
• German: Unbesiegbarer m
• Greek: ανίκητος (el) m (aníkitos)
• Hungarian: legyőzhetetlen (hu)
• Icelandic: ósigrandi ?
• Indonesian: tak terkalahkan
• Japanese: 無敵 (ja) (むてき, muteki)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: نەبەز (nebez)

• Latin: invictus ?
• Malay: kebal (ms)
• 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.

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French invincible, from Latin invincibilis (“unconquerable”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.vɛ̃.sibl/
• Homophone: invincibles

Adjective

invincible (plural invincibles)

1. invincible

Further reading

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