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indestructible

UK/ɪndɪˈstɹʌktɪbəl/US/ɪndɪˈstɹʌktɪbəl/
adjectiveB2+Common in everyday speech and writing · #7,025 of 15,258leans spoken

Indestructible means impossible to break or wear out. An indestructible toy, virtually indestructible, indestructible spirit.

It is a claim about durability and is nearly always an exaggeration, since virtually indestructible is what the packaging says and children are famously the test. Applied to a person it means a spirit nothing has managed to break.

Definitions of indestructible

  1. 1adjectiveindestructibleImpossible to break or wear out.B2+

    “The old farm tractor seemed indestructible and kept running for fifty years.”

indestructible is a quality.

Where it comes from

From in- + destructible.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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