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breakable

/ˈbɹeɪkəbəl/

breakable adjective: able to break or be broken.

Adjective

breakable (comparative more breakable, superlative most breakable)

  1. 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.2021 February 24, Greg Morse, “Great Heck: a tragic chain of events”, in RAIL, number 925, page 42
  2. Fragile.
    • Next Christmas she sent us bisque dolls, very lovely but too breakable to hug; we could not even kiss them but they cracked.1942, Emily Carr, “Ways of Getting Round”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC

Noun

breakable (plural breakables)

  1. Something that is (easily) breakable.
    • 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...2020 October 16, Sam Roberts, “Ruth Kluger, Author of a Haunting Holocaust Memoir, Dies at 88”, in The New York Times
  2. (plural-normally) 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.

breakable meaning in Malayalam

breakable in Malayalam

fragile, delicate, flimsy
ഭേദ്യ, ലംഘ്യ, ഭംഗുര, ഉടയുന്ന, പെട്ടെന്നുടയുന്ന, എളുപ്പം പൊട്ടിപ്പോകുന്ന

Synonyms of breakable

Antonyms

Forms of breakable

Adjective
comparativemore breakable
superlativemost breakable
Noun
pluralbreakables

Origin of breakable

From break + -able.

Words formed from breakable

Questions about breakable

What does breakable mean?
Breakable means able to break or be broken.
What is breakable in Malayalam?
Breakable in Malayalam is ഭേദ്യ, ലംഘ്യ, ഭംഗുര. See Breakable meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is breakable?
Breakable can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce breakable?
Breakable is pronounced /ˈbɹeɪkəbəl/.

Words near breakable in the dictionary

  1. break-vows
  2. break-wind
  3. break-winds
  4. breakabilities
  5. breakability
  6. breakable
  7. breakableness
  8. breakables
  9. breakably
  10. breakage
  11. breakages

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Adapted from Wiktionary: breakable (page history and authors); breakable (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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