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Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg-der. Proto-Germanic *brekaną Proto-West Germanic *brekan Old English brecan Middle English breken English break Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English unbreakable From un- + break + -able.

Definitions

1
Difficult or impossible to break and therefore able to withstand rough usage.
- unbreakable comb
- 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
Resilient.
- the unbreakable spirit of the rebels
Not able to be broken in.
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1. Something that cannot be broken.

The neighborhood

antonymbreakable
antonymfragile
neighborunbroken

Derived

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

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for unbreakable. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.