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INVINCIBLE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Incapable of being overcome or subdued
Example:
her invincible spirit
Synonyms:
invincible; unbeatable; unvanquishable
Classified under:
Similar:
unconquerable (not capable of being conquered or vanquished or overcome)
Derivation:
invincibility (the property being difficult or impossible to defeat)
Context examples:
In every other way they were our friends—one might almost say our devoted slaves—but when it was suggested that they should help us to make and carry a plank which would bridge the chasm, or when we wished to get from them thongs of leather or liana to weave ropes which might help us, we were met by a good-humored, but an invincible, refusal.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But to me the remembrance of the threat returned; nor can you wonder that, omnipotent as the fiend had yet been in his deeds of blood, I should almost regard him as invincible, and that when he had pronounced the words I shall be with you on your wedding-night, I should regard the threatened fate as unavoidable.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
But a voice behind me, the unmistakable voice of Wolf Larsen, strong with the invincible certitude of the man and mellow with appreciation of the words he was quoting, aroused me.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
