Indestructible
[ɪndɪ'strʌktɪb(ə)l] or [,ɪndɪ'strʌktəbl]
Definition
(a.) Not destructible; incapable of decomposition or of being destroyed.
Checker: Wayne
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Imperishable, that cannot be destroyed.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Imperishable, indiscerptible
ANT:Perishable, destructible, dissoluble
Checker: Percy
Definition
adj. that cannot be destroyed.—ns. Indestructibil′ity Indestruc′tibleness.—adv. Indestruc′tibly.
Edited by Angus
Examples
- The broad problem which he set himself was to provide handsome and practically indestructible detached houses, which could be taken by wage-earners at very moderate monthly rentals. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Adam kept Eve in the indestructible paradise, when he kept her single with himself, like a star in its orbit. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- In its absolutely indestructible form it reaches a profundity in which all exhibition of itself is painful. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- For if spirit, if integral being is destructible, Matter is indestructible. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I did not then know that it was no transitory blossom, but rather the radiant resemblance of one, cut in an indestructible gem. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
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