invincible
Something invincible is victorious over everything. Disease, death, destruction? No match for something truly invincible. Mere humans who imagine they're invincible, however, will inevitably prove that they're not.
Invincible comes ultimately from the Latin verb vincere, "to conquer." Many of the uses for invincible are for describing someone or something victorious or unbeatable at what they do. A company can be invincible when it outsells similar businesses for years, a tennis player is invincible after winning all of the majors in a year or a career, and Superman and the Indomitable Snowman are invincible as long as they stay away from kryptonite and the warm sun.
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incapable of being overcome or subdued“an invincible army”“her invincible spirit”synonyms: unbeatable, unvanquishableunconquerablenot capable of being conquered or vanquished or overcome
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All the words below have the prefix "in-" meaning "not," as their first element. The problem is that even though many of the words have negative senses in Modern English, their positive counterparts have fallen out of use, or existed only in Latin. These words may have been part of a pair, once upon a time, but their partners are no more. Through the illustrative sentences and the linguistic tidbits below, we have tried to make the history of these negative words with "in-" clearer and hopefully easier to remember.
As you read Kao Kalia Yang's "The Latehomecomer," learn this word list. Here are links to lists for texts in Grade 8's Collection 1: My Favorite Chaperone, Bonne Annee, A Place to Call Home, The Latehomecomer