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Invisible or Invincible - What's the difference?

invisible | invincible |

As adjectives the difference between invincible and invisible

is that invincible is impossible to defeat, destroy or kill while invisible is unable to be seen; out of sight; not visible.

As a noun invincible

is someone or something that cannot be defeated, destroyed or killed.

invisible

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Unable to be seen; out of sight; not visible.
  • * (John Milton)
  • To us invisible , or dimly seen / In these thy lowest works.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on an afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= William E. Conner
  • , title= An Acoustic Arms Race , volume=101, issue=3, page=206-7, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible ” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.}}
  • * 2013 , Jayne Smith, Guide to Basic Garment Assembly for the Fashion Industry (page 60)
  • The teeth on an invisible zip are different from those on a conventional zip, as they are turned onto the inside so that they do not show, giving the impression of being concealed in the seam, as seen below.
  • Not appearing on the surface.
  • (Internet) Apparently, but not actually, offline.
  • (psychology) That is ignored by a person.
  • Synonyms

    * (not appearing on the surface) hidden, latent

    Antonyms

    * visible * apparent

    invincible

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • Someone or something that cannot be defeated, destroyed or killed.
  • Antonyms

    * vincible

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Impossible to defeat, destroy or kill.
  • Synonyms

    * unconquerable * undefeatable

    Antonyms

    * conquerable * defeatable * vincible * weak