Breakable

Quick meaning: Breakable is an adjective meaning Able to break or be broken.

Meaning

Able to break or be broken.

More Meanings

1. Fragile.
2. Something that is (easily) breakable.
3. (usually in the plural, music) A set of customized hardware that is part of a drum kit. Breakables typically consist of: the drummer's cymbals including high-hats, the snare drum, the kick pedal and the drummer's stool.

Example Sentences

We had to wrap all the breakables before the movers arrived.

Next Christmas she sent us bisque dolls, very lovely but too breakable to hug; we could not even kiss them but they cracked.

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.

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.”

Word Forms

• breakables

Synonyms for breakable

Depending on context, synonyms include frangible, fragile, delicate, frail, friable, crumbly.

Antonyms for breakable

Common opposites include unbreakable.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include frangible, friable, brittle, crumbly, fragile, brickly.

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