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breakable

DEFINITIONS OF: breakable

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adj capable of being broken or damaged

“earthenware pottery is breakable
breakable articles should be packed carefully”
Synonyms
brickle, brickly, brittle
having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped
crumbly, friable
easily broken into small fragments or reduced to powder
short
tending to crumble or break into flakes due to a large amount of shortening
delicate, fragile, frail
easily broken or damaged or destroyed
frangible
capable of being broken
splintery
subject to breaking into sharp slender pieces
Antonyms:
unbreakable
impossible to break especially under ordinary usage
infrangible
difficult or impossible to break or separate into parts
shatterproof, splinterless, splinterproof
resistant to shattering or splintering
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n an article that is fragile and easily broken

“pack the breakables separately”
Type of:
article
one of a class of artifacts
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