INVULNERABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does invulnerable mean? 

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

1. immune to attack; impregnable

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• INVULNERABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Immune to attack; impregnable

Context example:

gunners raked the beach from invulnerable positions on the cliffs

Similar:

air-tight; airtight (having no weak points)

bombproof; shellproof (able to resist the explosive force of bombs and shells)

defendable; defensible (capable of being defended)

entrenched (dug in)

impregnable; inviolable; secure; strong; unassailable; unattackable (immune to attack; incapable of being tampered with)

tight (set so close together as to be invulnerable to penetration)

sheltered (protected from danger or bad weather)

untouchable (beyond the reach of criticism or attack or impeachment)

Also:

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

protected (kept safe or defended from danger or injury or loss)

safe (free from danger or the risk of harm)

secure (free from danger or risk)

Antonym:

vulnerable (susceptible to attack)

Derivation:

invulnerability (the property of being invulnerable; the property of being incapable of being hurt (physically or emotionally))

 Context examples 

Wealth was an inferior object, but what glory would attend the discovery if I could banish disease from the human frame and render man invulnerable to any but a violent death!

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I gazed on my victim, and my heart swelled with exultation and hellish triumph; clapping my hands, I exclaimed, ‘I too can create desolation; my enemy is not invulnerable; this death will carry despair to him, and a thousand other miseries shall torment and destroy him.’

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)