INVINCIBLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does invincible mean? 

• INVINCIBLE (adjective)
  The adjective INVINCIBLE has 1 sense:

1. incapable of being overcome or subdued

  Familiarity information: INVINCIBLE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INVINCIBLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Incapable of being overcome or subdued

Synonyms:

invincible; unbeatable; unvanquishable

Context example:

her invincible spirit

Similar:

unconquerable (not capable of being conquered or vanquished or overcome)

Derivation:

invincibility (the property being difficult or impossible to defeat)

 Context examples 

I was undisturbed by thoughts which during the preceding year had pressed upon me, notwithstanding my endeavours to throw them off, with an invincible burden.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

They were grave, it is true, and thoughtful, but of an invincible serenity.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

One claimed to be ten-stone champion, another was ready to take on anything at eleven, but would not run to twelve, which would have brought the invincible Jem Belcher down upon him.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was Wolf Larsen’s last word, “bosh,” sceptical and invincible to the end.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

They had hurt only the flesh of him; beneath the flesh the spirit had still raged, splendid and invincible.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Beyond this circle of death their comrades, bewildered and amazed, cowered away from this black tower and from these invincible men, who were most to be dreaded when hope was furthest from their hearts.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was invincible.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

My life had hitherto been remarkably secluded and domestic, and this had given me invincible repugnance to new countenances.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

It was the old, indomitable, terrible Wolf Larsen, imprisoned somewhere within that flesh which had once been so invincible and splendid.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

And in that moment, and for the moment, she was aware of a rift that showed in her certitude—a rift through which she caught sight of the real Martin Eden, splendid and invincible; and as animal-trainers have their moments of doubt, so she, for the instant, seemed to doubt her power to tame this wild spirit of a man.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)