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Meaning of BREAKABLE

Pronunciation:  'breykubul

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [n]  an article that is fragile and easily broken; "pack the breakables separately"
  2. [adj]  capable of being broken or damaged; "earthenware pottery is breakable"; "breakable articles should be packed carefully"
 
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 Synonyms: brickle, brickly, brittle, crumbly, delicate, fragile, frail, frangible, friable, splintery
 
 Antonyms: unbreakable
 
 See Also: article

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Break"a*ble\, a.
Capable of being broken.
 
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Thesaurus Terms
 
 Related Terms: brittle, brittle as glass, cheap-jack, cobwebby, crackable, crisp, crispy, crumbly, crushable, dainty, delicate, delicately weak, effeminate, fissile, flimsy, fracturable, fragile, frail, frangible, friable, gimcrack, gimcracky, gossamery, jerry, jerry-built, lacerable, light, lightweight, namby-pamby, papery, pasteboardy, puny, scissile, shatterable, shattery, shivery, sissified, sleazy, slight, splintery, tacky, unsubstantial, vulnerable, wispy, womanish
 

 

 

 

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