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Adjective: inviolable  in'vI-u-lu-bul
  1. Incapable of being transgressed or dishonoured
    "the person of the king is inviolable"; "an inviolable oath"
     
  2. Immune to attack; incapable of being tampered with
    "fortifications that made the frontier inviolable"
    - impregnable, secure, strong, unassailable, unattackable
     
  3. Must be kept sacred
    - inviolate, sacrosanct
     
  4. Not capable of being violated or infringed
    "inviolable human rights"
    - absolute, infrangible

See also: inalienable, invulnerable, sacred, unalienable, unassailable, untouchable

Antonym: violable

Encyclopedia: Inviolable