breakable

English

Etymology

break +‎ -able

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈbɹeɪkəbəl/
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Adjective

breakable (comparative more breakable, superlative most breakable)

Able to break or be broken.
Fragile.

Synonyms

destructible
See Thesaurus:fragile

Antonyms

unbreakable

Translations

able to be broken

Bulgarian: чуплив (bg) (čupliv), трошлив (bg) (trošliv)
Catalan: trencable
Chinese:
Mandarin: 易碎的 (yì suì de)
Danish: skrøbelig
Esperanto: rompebla
Finnish: särkyvä (fi)
French: frangible (fr)
Middle French: frangible
Galician: quebrábel m or f
Hungarian: törhető (hu)
Japanese: 壊せる (ja) (kowaseru)
Kazakh: сынғақ (synğaq), сынғыш (synğyş)
Manx: brishlagh, so-vrishey
Polish: łamliwy (pl)
Russian: ло́мкий (ru) (lómkij)
Spanish: frangible, rompible (es)
Swedish: bräcklig (sv)

fragile — see fragile

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Serbo-Croatian: ^{(please verify)} slomljiv, ^{(please verify)} slomljive pl, ^{(please verify)} slomljiva n pl

Noun

breakable (plural breakables)

Something that is (easily) breakable.
We had to wrap all the breakables before the movers arrived.
(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.

Usage notes

May be more common as breakables, the group of things that are easily broken.

Translations

something that is easily breakable

Chinese:
Mandarin: 易碎品
Finnish: särkyvä (fi)

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