frangible

Adjective Satellite

capable of being broken
- "the museum stored all frangible articles in locked showcases"

Adj

Able to be broken; breakable, fragile.

Noun

Something that is breakable or fragile; especially something that is intentionally made so, such as a bullet.

Origin / Etymology

From Late Middle English frangible, frangibil, from Middle French frangible, or from Medieval Latin frangibilis, from Latin frangere (from frangō (“to break, shatter”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg- (“to break”)) + -ibilis (suffix forming adjectives indicating a capacity or worth of being acted upon).

Synonyms

fragmentable

Antonyms

indestructible, infrangible, nonbrittle, unbreakable, unfragile, unfrangible

Scrabble Score: 15

frangible: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
frangible: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
frangible: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 19

frangible: valid Words With Friends Word