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unbreakable

adjectiveB2Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #9,635 of 15,258neutral

Unbreakable means impossible to break in normal use. Unbreakable glass, an unbreakable bond, an unbreakable record.

The qualification is always there in practice, since unbreakable glass means it survives being dropped rather than anything at all. Of a promise or a record it means nothing has broken it yet.

Definitions of unbreakable

  1. 1adjectiveunbreakableImpossible to break in normal use.B2

    “The toddler's plates are made of unbreakable plastic, so he can't smash them.”

unbreakable is a quality.

Where it comes from

  1. Middle English

    breken

  2. English

    break

  3. English, today

    unbreakable

From un- + break + -able. break comes from Middle English breken. From Middle English breken, from Old English brecan (“to break”), from Proto-West Germanic brekan, from Proto-Germanic brekaną (“to break”), from Proto-Indo-European bʰreg- (“to break”). a doublet of bray. 2

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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