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breakable
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun breakable has 1 sense
- breakable(n = noun.artifact) Array - an article that is fragile and easily broken; "pack the breakables separately" is a kind of article
Adjective breakable has 1 sense
- breakable(a = adj.all) Array - capable of being broken or damaged; "earthenware pottery is breakable"; "breakable articles should be packed carefully" Derived forms verb break2, verb break5, verb break54, verb break17, verb break43, verb break42, verb break4, verb break39, noun breakability1, noun breakableness1
Antonym: unbreakable
OXFORD DICTIONARY
breakable, adj. & n.
--adj. that may or is apt to be broken easily.
--n. (esp. in pl.) a breakable thing.
--adj. that may or is apt to be broken easily.
--n. (esp. in pl.) a breakable thing.
THESAURUS
breakable
brittle, brittle as glass, cheap-jack, cobwebby, crackable, crisp, crispy, crumbly, crushable, dainty, delicate, delicately weak, effeminate, fissile, flimsy, fracturable, fragile, frail, frangible, friable, gimcrack, gimcracky, gossamery, jerry, jerry-built, lacerable, light, lightweight, namby-pamby, papery, pasteboardy, puny, scissile, shatterable, shattery, shivery, sissified, sleazy, slight, splintery, tacky, unsubstantial, vulnerable, wispy, womanishROGET THESAURUS
breakable
Brittleness
N brittleness, fragility, friability, frangibility, fissibility, house of cards, house of glass, brittle, brash, breakable, weak, frangible, fragile, frail, gimcrack, shivery, fissile, splitting, lacerable, splintery, crisp, crimp, short, brittle as glass.
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