| Meaning | capable of being broken or damaged. |
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| Examples | - "earthenware pottery is breakable"
- "breakable articles should be packed carefully"
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| Attribute of | breakableness | The consistency of something that breaks / breaks / breaks under pressure |
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| Narrower | brittle, brickle, brickly | Having little elasticity |
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| crumbly, friable | Easily broken into small fragments or reduced to powder |
| delicate, fragile, frail | easily broken or damaged or destroyed |
| frangible | capable of being broken |
| short | tending to crumble or break into flakes due to a large amount of shortening |
| splintery | subject to breaking into sharp slender pieces |
| See also | delicate | exquisitely fine and subtle and pleasing |
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| Opposite | unbreakable | impossible to break / break / break / break / break / break / break / break especially under ordinary usage |
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| Spanish | rompible |
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| Catalan | trencable |
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| Nouns | breakability | quality of being easily damaged or destroyed |
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| breakableness | the consistency of something that breaks / breaks / breaks under pressure |
| Verbs | break | become separated / separated into pieces or fragments |
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| break | stop operating or functioning |
| break | destroy the integrity of |
| break | become fractured |
| break | go to pieces |
| break | ruin completely |
| break | break a piece from a whole |
| break | destroy the completeness of a set of related items |
