"inviolable" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ɪnˈvaɪələbl̩/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-inviolable.wav Forms: more inviolable [comparative], most inviolable [superlative]
Etymology: From Middle French inviolable, from Latin inviolābilis (“untouchable”), from violō (“violate”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|frm|inviolable}} Middle French inviolable, {{der|en|la|inviolābilis|t=untouchable}} Latin inviolābilis (“untouchable”) Head templates: {{en-adj}} inviolable (comparative more inviolable, superlative most inviolable)
  1. Not violable; not to be infringed. Synonyms: unbreakable, unbreachable Translations (not violable; not to be infringed): ἀβέβηλος (abébēlos) (Ancient Greek), ἀάατος (aáatos) [Epic] (Ancient Greek), ненарушим (nenarušim) (Bulgarian), неприкосновен (neprikosnoven) (Bulgarian), 不可違反 /不可违反 (bùkě wéifǎn) (Chinese Mandarin), onschendbaar (Dutch), loukkaamaton (Finnish), koskematon (Finnish), inviolable (French), unantastbar (German), unverletzlich (German), απαράβατος (aparávatos) (Greek), 破ってはならない (yabutte wa naranai) (Japanese), 厳守の (genshu no) (Japanese), неповредлив (nepovredliv) (Macedonian), ukrenkelig (Norwegian Bokmål), ukrenkeleg (Norwegian Nynorsk), ukrenkjeleg (Norwegian Nynorsk), nienaruszalny (Polish), nietykalny (Polish), inviolável (Portuguese), неруши́мый (nerušímyj) (Russian), неприкоснове́нный (neprikosnovénnyj) (Russian), neprikosnoven [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), nenarušiv [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), inviolable (Spanish), okränkbar (Swedish), непору́шний (neporúšnyj) (Ukrainian), недоторка́нний (nedotorkánnyj) (Ukrainian)
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  2. Not susceptible to violence, or of being profaned, corrupted, or dishonoured. Synonyms: holy, sacred, sacrosanct
    Sense id: en-inviolable-en-adj-FH1zEHV3
  3. Incapable of being injured or invaded; indestructible. Synonyms: invincible, unassailable Translations (incapable of being injured or invaded): неуязвим (neujazvim) (Bulgarian), 不可侵犯 (bùkě qīnfàn) (Chinese Mandarin), dosháraithe (Irish), 不可侵の (fukashin no) (Japanese), 侵せない (okasenai) (Japanese), 侵略できない (shinryaku dekinai) (Japanese), inviolável (Portuguese), nepovrediv [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian)
    Sense id: en-inviolable-en-adj-~G33MQ6l Disambiguation of 'incapable of being injured or invaded': 5 5 90
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: inviolability, inviolableness, inviolably
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          "text": "But come, for thou, be ſure, ſhalt give account / To him who ſent us, whoſe charge is to keep / This place inviolable, and therefore theſe from harm.",
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    "Terms with Portuguese translations",
    "Terms with Russian translations",
    "Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations",
    "Terms with Spanish translations",
    "Terms with Swedish translations",
    "Terms with Ukrainian translations"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "inviolability"
    },
    {
      "word": "inviolableness"
    },
    {
      "word": "inviolably"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "frm",
        "3": "inviolable"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle French inviolable",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "inviolābilis",
        "t": "untouchable"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin inviolābilis (“untouchable”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle French inviolable, from Latin inviolābilis (“untouchable”), from violō (“violate”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more inviolable",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most inviolable",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "inviolable (comparative more inviolable, superlative most inviolable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "in‧vi‧o‧la‧ble"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "antonyms": [
        {
          "english": "incapable of being complied",
          "word": "incompliable"
        },
        {
          "english": "capable of being violated",
          "word": "violable"
        },
        {
          "english": "capable of being violated",
          "word": "breakable"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 842–844:",
          "text": "But come, for thou, be ſure, ſhalt give account / To him who ſent us, whoſe charge is to keep / This place inviolable, and therefore theſe from harm.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "a. 1682, Sir Thomas Browne, “Christian Morals”, in Henry Gardiner, editor, Religio Medici, together with a Letter to a Friend on the Death of His Intimate Friend and Christian Morals, London: W. Pickering, published 1845, part III, page 337:",
          "text": "But honeſt men’s words are Stygian oaths, and promiſes inviolable.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1828, Thomas Castaly, “The Recorder”, in Fanny with Other Poems, page 87:",
          "text": "One more request, and I am lost, / If you its earnest prayer deny ; / It is, that you preserve the most / Inviolable secrecy / As to my plan.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, When the World Screamed:",
          "text": "\"Now, Mr. Jones, having obtained your promise of inviolable secrecy, I come down to the essential point.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Not violable; not to be infringed."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "violable",
          "violable"
        ],
        [
          "infringe",
          "infringe"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "unbreakable"
        },
        {
          "word": "unbreachable"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "antonyms": [
        {
          "word": "violable"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Not susceptible to violence, or of being profaned, corrupted, or dishonoured."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "susceptible",
          "susceptible"
        ],
        [
          "violence",
          "violence"
        ],
        [
          "profane",
          "profane"
        ],
        [
          "corrupt",
          "corrupt"
        ],
        [
          "dishonour",
          "dishonour"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "holy"
        },
        {
          "word": "sacred"
        },
        {
          "word": "sacrosanct"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "antonyms": [
        {
          "word": "invadable"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Incapable of being injured or invaded; indestructible."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "injure",
          "injure"
        ],
        [
          "invade",
          "invade"
        ],
        [
          "indestructible",
          "indestructible"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "invincible"
        },
        {
          "word": "unassailable"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ɪnˈvaɪələbl̩/"
    },
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  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "nenarušim",
      "sense": "not violable; not to be infringed",
      "word": "ненарушим"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "neprikosnoven",
      "sense": "not violable; not to be infringed",
      "word": "неприкосновен"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "bùkě wéifǎn",
      "sense": "not violable; not to be infringed",
      "word": "不可違反 /不可违反"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "not violable; not to be infringed",
      "word": "onschendbaar"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "not violable; not to be infringed",
      "word": "loukkaamaton"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "not violable; not to be infringed",
      "word": "koskematon"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "not violable; not to be infringed",
      "word": "inviolable"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "not violable; not to be infringed",
      "word": "unantastbar"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "not violable; not to be infringed",
      "word": "unverletzlich"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "aparávatos",
      "sense": "not violable; not to be infringed",
      "word": "απαράβατος"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "abébēlos",
      "sense": "not violable; not to be infringed",
      "word": "ἀβέβηλος"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "aáatos",
      "sense": "not violable; not to be infringed",
      "tags": [
        "Epic"
      ],
      "word": "ἀάατος"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "yabutte wa naranai",
      "sense": "not violable; not to be infringed",
      "word": "破ってはならない"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "genshu no",
      "sense": "not violable; not to be infringed",
      "word": "厳守の"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "nepovredliv",
      "sense": "not violable; not to be infringed",
      "word": "неповредлив"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "not violable; not to be infringed",
      "word": "ukrenkelig"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "not violable; not to be infringed",
      "word": "ukrenkeleg"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "not violable; not to be infringed",
      "word": "ukrenkjeleg"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "not violable; not to be infringed",
      "word": "nienaruszalny"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "not violable; not to be infringed",
      "word": "nietykalny"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "not violable; not to be infringed",
      "word": "inviolável"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "nerušímyj",
      "sense": "not violable; not to be infringed",
      "word": "неруши́мый"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "neprikosnovénnyj",
      "sense": "not violable; not to be infringed",
      "word": "неприкоснове́нный"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "not violable; not to be infringed",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "neprikosnoven"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "not violable; not to be infringed",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "nenarušiv"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "not violable; not to be infringed",
      "word": "inviolable"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "not violable; not to be infringed",
      "word": "okränkbar"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "neporúšnyj",
      "sense": "not violable; not to be infringed",
      "word": "непору́шний"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "nedotorkánnyj",
      "sense": "not violable; not to be infringed",
      "word": "недоторка́нний"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "neujazvim",
      "sense": "incapable of being injured or invaded",
      "word": "неуязвим"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "bùkě qīnfàn",
      "sense": "incapable of being injured or invaded",
      "word": "不可侵犯"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "incapable of being injured or invaded",
      "word": "dosháraithe"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "fukashin no",
      "sense": "incapable of being injured or invaded",
      "word": "不可侵の"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "okasenai",
      "sense": "incapable of being injured or invaded",
      "word": "侵せない"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "shinryaku dekinai",
      "sense": "incapable of being injured or invaded",
      "word": "侵略できない"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "incapable of being injured or invaded",
      "word": "inviolável"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "incapable of being injured or invaded",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "nepovrediv"
    }
  ],
  "word": "inviolable"
}

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