What does breakable mean?
Breakable means Able to break or be broken..
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/ˈbɹeɪkəbəl/ · adjective
Able to break or be broken..
The accident was also one of several since Clapham […] that demonstrated the role of breakable windows in the death toll. RSSB research would later confirm and reinforce the need for laminated glass to protect passengers and increase survivability.
Next Christmas she sent us bisque dolls, very lovely but too breakable to hug; we could not even kiss them but they cracked.
We had to wrap all the breakables before the movers arrived.
She was, she wrote, “impatient and absent-minded, prone to drop things intentionally or through clumsiness, even breakables like dishes and love affairs; a woman who is perennially on the move, changing jobs and homes at the drop of a hat and inventing reasons afterward while she is packing; a person who runs away as soon as she gets nervous, long before she smells danger.”
Use breakable when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Breakable means Able to break or be broken..
Common synonyms include frangible, fragile, delicate, frail.
Possible antonyms include unbreakable.
The accident was also one of several since Clapham […] that demonstrated the role of breakable windows in the death toll. RSSB research would later confirm and reinforce the need for laminated glass to protect passengers and increase survivability.
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