BREAKABLE
Dictionary entry overview: What does breakable mean?
• BREAKABLE (noun)
The noun BREAKABLE has 1 sense:
1. an article that is fragile and easily broken
Familiarity information: BREAKABLE used as a noun is very rare.
• BREAKABLE (adjective)
The adjective BREAKABLE has 1 sense:
1. capable of being broken or damaged
Familiarity information: BREAKABLE used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• BREAKABLE (noun)
Meaning:
An article that is fragile and easily broken
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Context example:
pack the breakables separately
Hypernyms ("breakable" is a kind of...):
article (one of a class of artifacts)
• BREAKABLE (adjective)
Meaning:
Capable of being broken or damaged
Context examples:
earthenware pottery is breakable / breakable articles should be packed carefully
Similar:
brickle; brickly; brittle (having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped)
crumbly (apt to break into small fragments or disintegrate)
short (tending to crumble or break into flakes due to a large amount of shortening)
friable (easily broken into small fragments or reduced to powder)
delicate; fragile; frail (easily broken or damaged or destroyed)
frangible (capable of being broken)
splintery (subject to breaking into sharp slender pieces)
Attribute:
breakableness (the consistency of something that breaks under pressure)
Antonym:
unbreakable (impossible to break especially under ordinary usage)
