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Invulnerable

adjective·Academic

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Incapable of being harmed, wounded, or damaged; safe from attack or injury.

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The castle's thick stone walls made it nearly invulnerable to siege weapons.

No system is truly invulnerable to a determined and well-resourced hacker.

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"Invulnerable" combines the negative prefix "in-" with "vulnerable," from the Latin "vulnerare," meaning "to wound."

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