breakable

English

Etymology

From break +‎ -able.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɹeɪkəbəl/

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Adjective

breakable (comparative more breakable, superlative most breakable)

1. Able to break or be broken.
2. Fragile.

Synonyms

• destructible
• See Thesaurus:fragile

Antonyms

• unbreakable

Derived terms

• breakableness
• breakably
• nonbreakable

 

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 (es), 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)

1. Something that is (easily) breakable.

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

2. (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)