unbreakable

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ break +‎ -able.

Adjective

unbreakable (comparative more unbreakable, superlative most unbreakable)

1. Difficult or impossible to break and therefore able to withstand rough usage.

   Hypernym: tough

   unbreakable comb

   • 2023 May 18, Christopher Clarey, “Even as He’s Out, Rafael Nadal Will Always Be a Part of the French Open”, in The New York Times‎:

     His 14 singles titles still look like a typo even for those like me who have watched him build that probably unbreakable record, red brick by red brick.

2. (figurative) Resilient.

   the unbreakable spirit of the rebels

3. (of a horse) Not able to be broken in.

Antonyms

• breakable
• fragile

Derived terms

• sticks in a bundle are unbreakable
• unbreakability
• unbreakableness
• unbreakably

Related terms

• unbroken

Translations

difficult or impossible to break

Bulgarian: нечуплив (bg) (nečupliv) Danish: ubrydelig Finnish: rikkoutumaton French: incassable (fr) German: unzerbrechlich (de) Greek: άθραυστος (el) (áthrafstos) Ancient: ἄρρηκτος (árrhēktos), (Epic, poetic) ἀαγής (aagḗs) Hungarian: törhetetlen (hu) Italian: infrangibile (it) Latin: infragilis Manx: do-vrishey Norwegian: Bokmål: uknuselig Occitan: incopable, imbresable Portuguese: inquebrável (pt) Spanish: irrompible (es) Swedish: okrossbar (sv) Turkish: kırılmaz (tr) Ukrainian: незла́мний (nezlámnyj), нерозри́вний (nerozrývnyj)

(figuratively) resilient

Ukrainian: незла́мний (nezlámnyj)

See also

• (horses or rebels): free-spirited, indominable, invincible, willful

Noun

unbreakable (plural unbreakables)

1. Something that cannot be broken.