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