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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective durable has 3 senses
- durable(s = adj.all) lasting, long-lasting, long-lived - existing for a long time; "hopes for a durable peace"; "a long-lasting friendship" Derived form noun durability1
- durable(s = adj.all) long-wearing - capable of withstanding wear and tear and decay; "durable denim jeans" Derived form noun durability1
- durable(s = adj.all) indestructible, perdurable, undestroyable - very long lasting; "less durable rocks were gradually worn away to form valleys"; "the perdurable granite of the ancient Appalachian spine of the continent" Derived form noun durability1
OXFORD DICTIONARY
durable, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 capable of lasting; hard-wearing.
2 (of goods) not for immediate consumption; able to be kept.
--n. (in pl.) durable goods.
--adj.
1 capable of lasting; hard-wearing.
2 (of goods) not for immediate consumption; able to be kept.
--n. (in pl.) durable goods.
Derivative
durability n. durableness n. durably adv.
Etymology
ME f. OF f. L durabilis f. durare endure f. durus hard
THESAURUS
durable
abiding, adamantine, age-long, aged, ancient, antique, bulky, cartilaginous, changeless, chewy, chronic, cohesive, constant, continuing, coriaceous, dense, dependable, diuturnal, enduring, evergreen, fast, fibrous, firm, fixed, frozen, gristly, hard, hardy, heavy, immobile, immutable, indestructible, intact, intransient, inveterate, inviolate, lasting, leatherlike, leathery, long-lasting, long-lived, long-standing, long-term, longeval, longevous, macrobiotic, massive, of long duration, of long standing, perdurable, perduring, perennial, permanent, perpetual, persistent, persisting, quiescent, reliable, remaining, resistant, rigid, ropy, rugged, sempervirent, sinewy, solid, sound, stable, static, stationary, staying, steadfast, steady, stiff, stout, stringy, strong, stubborn, sturdy, substantial, sustained, tenacious, torpid, tough, tough as leather, unaltered, unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging, unchecked, undestroyed, unfading, unfailing, unshifting, untiring, unvaried, unvarying, unyielding, vigorous, viscid, vital, well-built, well-constructed, well-founded, well-grounded, well-made, wiryROGET THESAURUS
durable
Diuturnity
N diuturnity, a long time, a length of time, an age, a century, an eternity, slowness, perpetuity, blue moon, coon's age, dog's age, durableness, durability, persistence, endlessness, lastingness, continuance, standing, permanence, survival, survivance, longevity, distance of time, protraction of time, prolongation of time, extension of time, delay, durable, lasting, of long duration, of long-standing, permanent, endless, chronic, long-standing, intransient, intransitive, intransmutable, persistent, lifelong, livelong, longeval, long-lived, macrobiotic, diuturnal, evergreen, perennial, sempervirent, sempervirid, unrelenting, unintermitting, unremitting, perpetual, lingering, protracted, prolonged, spun out, long-pending, long-winded, slow, long, for a long time, for an age, for ages, for ever so long, for many a long day, long ago, longo intervallo, all the day long, all the year round, the livelong day, as the day is long, morning noon and night, hour after hour, day after day, for good, permanently.Stability
N stability, immutability, unchangeability unchangeableness, constancy, stable equilibrium, immobility, soundness, vitality, stabiliment, stiffness, ankylosis, solidity, aplomb, establishment, fixture, rock, pillar, tower, foundation, leopard's spots, Ethiopia's skin, permanence, obstinacy, unchangeable, immutable, unaltered, unalterable, not to be changed, constant, permanent, invariable, undeviating, stable, durable, perennial, fixed, steadfast, firm, fast, steady, balanced, confirmed, valid, fiducial, immovable, irremovable, riveted, rooted, settled, established, vested, incontrovertible, stereotyped, indeclinable, tethered, anchored, moored, at anchor, on a rock, rock solid, firm as a rock, firmly seated, firmly established, deep-rooted, ineradicable, inveterate, obstinate, transfixed, stuck fast, aground, high and dry, stranded, stuck, jammed, unremovable, quiescent, deterioration, indefeasible, irretrievable, intransmutable, incommutable, irresoluble, irrevocable, irreversible, reverseless, inextinguishable, irreducible, indissoluble, indissolvable, indestructible, undying, imperishable, incorruptible, indelible, indeciduous, insusceptible, insusceptible of change, Int, stet, littera scripta manet.
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