Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun breakable

1 sense of breakable

Sense 1
breakable -- (an article that is fragile and easily broken; "pack the breakables separately")
       => article -- (one of a class of artifacts; "an article of clothing")

Antonyms of adj breakable

1 sense of breakable

Sense 1
breakable (vs. unbreakable) -- (capable of being broken or damaged; "earthenware pottery is breakable"; "breakable articles should be packed carefully")

unbreakable (vs. breakable) -- (impossible to break especially under ordinary usage; "unbreakable plastic dinnerwear")
        => infrangible -- (difficult or impossible to break or separate into parts; "an infrangible series")
        => shatterproof, splinterless, splinterproof -- (resistant to shattering or splintering; "shatterproof automobile windows")

Similarity of adj breakable

1 sense of breakable

Sense 1
breakable (vs. unbreakable) -- (capable of being broken or damaged; "earthenware pottery is breakable"; "breakable articles should be packed carefully")
       => brittle, brickle, brickly -- (having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped; "brittle bones"; "glass is brittle"; "`brickle' and `brickly' are dialectal")
       => crumbly, friable -- (easily broken into small fragments or reduced to powder; "friable sandstone"; "friable carcinomatous tissue"; "friable curds formed in the stomach";"crumbly cookies")
       => short -- (tending to crumble or break into flakes due to a large amount of shortening; "shortbread is a short crumbly cookie"; "a short flaky pie crust")
       => delicate, fragile, frail -- (easily broken or damaged or destroyed; "a kite too delicate to fly safely"; "fragile porcelain plates"; "fragile old bones"; "a frail craft")
       => frangible -- (capable of being broken; "the museum stored all frangible articles in locked showcases")
       => splintery -- (subject to breaking into sharp slender pieces)

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