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Word Meanings - INVINCIBLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Incapable of being conquered, overcome, or subdued; unconquerable; insuperable; as, an invincible army, or obstacle. Lead forth to battle these my sons Invincible. Milton. -- In*vin"ci*ble*ness, n. -- In*vin"ci*bly, adv.

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  • STRICT
    Upright, or straight and narrow; -- said of the shape of the plants or their flower clusters. Syn. -- Exact; accurate; nice; close; rigorous; severe. -- Strict, Severe. Strict, applied to a person, denotes that he conforms in his motives and acts
  • STRICTNESS
    Quality or state of being strict.
  • STRICTURED
    Affected with a stricture; as, a strictured duct.
  • UNIMPEACHABLE
    Not impeachable; not to be called in question; exempt from liability to accusation; free from stain, guilt, or fault; irreproachable; blameless; as, an unimpeachable reputation; unimpeachable testimony. Burke. -- Un`im*peach"a*ble*ness,
  • INDEFATIGABLE
    Incapable of being fatigued; not readily exhausted; unremitting in labor or effort; untiring; unwearying; not yielding to fatigue; as, indefatigable exertions, perseverance, application. "A constant, indefatigable attendance." South. Upborne with
  • IMMOVABLE
    Not liable to be removed; permanent in place or tenure; fixed; as, an immovable estate. See Immovable, n. Blackstone. Immovable apparatus , an appliance, like the plaster of paris bandage, which keeps fractured parts firmly in place. -- Immovable
  • STRICTURE
    A localized morbid contraction of any passage of the body. Cf. Organic stricture, and Spasmodic stricture, under Organic, and Spasmodic. Arbuthnot. (more info) 1. Strictness. A man of stricture and firm abstinence. Shak. 2. A stroke; a glance;
  • INVIOLABLENESS
    The quality or state of being inviolable; as, the inviolableness of divine justice.
  • INDEFATIGABLENESS
    Indefatigable quality; unweariedness; persistency. Parnell.
  • STRICTLY
    In a strict manner; closely; precisely.
  • IMMOVABLENESS
    Quality of being immovable.
  • STRICTION
    The act of constricting, or the state of being constricted. Line of striction , the line on a skew surface that cuts each generator in that point of it that is nearest to the succeeding generator.
  • IRREPRESSIBLE
    Not capable of being repressed, restrained, or controlled; as, irrepressible joy; an irrepressible conflict. W. H. Steward.
  • INVINCIBLE
    Incapable of being conquered, overcome, or subdued; unconquerable; insuperable; as, an invincible army, or obstacle. Lead forth to battle these my sons Invincible. Milton. -- In*vin"ci*ble*ness, n. -- In*vin"ci*bly, adv.
  • INVIOLABLE
    1. Not violable; not susceptible of hurt, wound, or harm (used with respect to either physical or moral damage); not susceptible of being profaned or corrupted; sacred; holy; as, inviolable honor or chastity; an inviolable shrine. He tried a third,
  • INDOMITABLE
    Not to be subdued; untamable; invincible; as, an indomitable will, courage, animal.
  • IMPREGNABLE
    Not to be stormed, or taken by assault; incapable of being subdued; able to resist attack; unconquerable; as, an impregnable fortress; impregnable virtue. The man's affection remains wholly unconcerned and impregnable. South. -- Im*preg"na*ble*ness,
  • ASTRICT
    To restrict the tenure of; as, to astrict lands. See Astriction, 4. Burrill. (more info) 1. To bind up; to confine; to constrict; to contract. The solid parts were to be relaxed or astricted. Arbuthnot. 2. To bind; to constrain; to restrict; to
  • BOA CONSTRICTOR
    A large and powerful serpent of tropical America, sometimes twenty or thirty feet long. See Illustration in Appendix. Note: It has a succession of spots, alternately black and yellow, extending along the back. It kills its prey by constriction.
  • RESTRICT
    Restricted.
  • REDISTRICT
    To divide into new districts.
  • CONSTRICTION
    1. The act of constricting by means of some inherent power or by movement or change in the thing itself, as distinguished from compression. 2. The state of being constricted; the point where a thing is constricted; a narrowing or binding.
  • VASOCONSTRICTOR
    Causing constriction of the blood vessels; as, the vasoconstrictor nerves, stimulation of which causes constriction of the blood vessels to which they go. These nerves are also called vasohypertonic. n.
  • CONSTRICT
    To draw together; to render narrower or smaller; to bind; to cramp; to contract or ause to shrink. Such things as constrict the fibers. Arbuthnot. Membranous organs inclosing a cavity which their contraction constrict. Todd & Bowman.
  • ADSTRICT
    See ASTRICTION (more info) -- Ad*stric"tion, n.
  • DISTRICT
    Rigorous; stringent; harsh. Punishing with the rod of district severity. Foxe.
  • PRESTRICTION
    Obstruction, dimness, or defect of sight. Milton.
  • ASTRICTORY
    Astrictive.
  • RED-LIGHT DISTRICT
    A district or neighborhood in which disorderly resorts are frequent; -- so called in allusion to the red light kept in front of many such resorts at night.

 

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