Breakable

//ˈbɹeɪkəbəl//

Synonyms for "breakable" (66 found)

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Closest matches (14)

brittle crumbly delicate frangible splintery brickle brittle as glass cheap-jack cobwebby crackable crisp crispy crushable dainty

Strong matches (19)

delicately weak destroyable destructible effeminate fissile flimsy fracturable fragile frail friable gimcrack gimcracky gossamery jerry

Adjective(5 words)

destroyable effete enervated fragile frangible

Related words (33)

jerry built jerry-built lacerable light lightweight namby pamby namby-pamby papery pasteboardy puny scissile shatterable shattery shivery short sissified sleazy slight tacky unsubstantial

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violable vulnerable weak wispy womanish

Adjective(8 words)

languid low tenuous toothless violable wasted weak weedy

Related word relations

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9 relation types

More general

1 entries

article

Antonyms

2 entries

unbreakable

Synonyms

2 entries

brittle destructible

derived

3 entries

breakableness breakably nonbreakable

derived from

1 entries

break

has context

1 entries

musical instruments

is a

1 entries

article

related to

10 entries

broken cymbals drum drummer fragile high hats kick pedal kit snare drum stool

similar

17 entries

brickle brickly brittle crumbly delicate fragile frail frangible friable short splintery

Showing 16 of 17 words.

Translations

24 translations across 17 languages.

Bulgarian

2 entries

трошлив adj (able to be broken)
чуплив adj (able to be broken)

Catalan

1 entries

trencable adj (able to be broken)

Chinese Mandarin

2 entries

易碎的 adj (able to be broken)
易碎品 noun (something that is easily breakable)

Danish

1 entries

skrøbelig adj (able to be broken)

Esperanto

1 entries

rompebla adj (able to be broken)

Finnish

2 entries

särkyvä adj (able to be broken)
särkyvä noun (something that is easily breakable)

French

1 entries

frangible adj (able to be broken)

Galician

1 entries

quebrábel adj (able to be broken)

Hungarian

1 entries

törhető adj (able to be broken)

Japanese

1 entries

壊せる adj (able to be broken)

Kazakh

2 entries

сынғақ adj (able to be broken)
сынғыш adj (able to be broken)

Manx

2 entries

brishlagh adj (able to be broken)
so-vrishey adj (able to be broken)

Middle French

1 entries

frangible adj (able to be broken)

Polish

2 entries

łamliwy adj (able to be broken)
łamliwy przedmiot noun (something that is easily breakable)

Russian

1 entries

ло́мкий adj (able to be broken)

Spanish

2 entries

frangible adj (able to be broken)
rompible adj (able to be broken)

Swedish

1 entries

bräcklig adj (able to be broken)

Sample sentences

8 total sentences available.

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Glass is breakable.

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Glass is a transparent and easily breakable material.

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Hope is breakable.

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These ceramics are highly breakable.

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