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English
Etymology
From in- + destructible.
Pronunciation
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Adjective
indestructible (not comparable)
- Not destructible; incapable of decomposition or of being destroyed; invincible.
- Synonyms: undestroyable, undestructable, unbreakable, unruinable, unwreckable
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Translations
not destructible
- Armenian: անկործան (hy) (ankorcan), անկործանելի (hy) (ankorcaneli)
- Belarusian: неразбуральны (njerazburalʹny), непарушны (njeparušny)
- Bulgarian: неразбиваем (bg) (nerazbivaem)
- Catalan: indestructible (ca)
- Czech: nezničitelný
- Dutch: onverwoestbaar (nl)
- Esperanto: nedetruebla
- Finnish: tuhoutumaton (fi)
- French: indestructible (fr)
- Galician: indestruible
- German: unzerstörbar (de), unvernichtbar
- Greek: άφθαρτος (el) (áfthartos), ακατάλυτος (el) m (akatálytos), αντίστρεπτος (antístreptos), άθραυστος (el) (áthrafstos), ακατέστρεπτος (akatéstreptos), ανθεκτικός (el) (anthektikós), ακατάστρεπτος (akatástreptos), ακατεδάφιστος (el) (akatedáfistos), άτρωτος (el) (átrotos), ακατανίκητος (el) (akataníkitos)
- Ancient: ἀνώλεθρος (anṓlethros), ἀτειρής (ateirḗs), ἀκατάστρεπτος (akatástreptos)
- Hindi: अविनाशी (hi) (avināśī)
- Hungarian: elpusztíthatatlan (hu)
- Italian: indistruttibile (it)
- Japanese: 壊せない (ja) (kowasenai), 潰せない (ja) (tsubusenai), びくともしない (bikutomo-shinai), 丈夫な (ja) (jōbu na), 堅い (ja) (katai)
- Latin: indēlēbilis
- Manx: neuhraartagh
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: som ikke kan ødelegges (no), uforgjengelig (no), uslitelig
- Polish: niezniszczalny (pl)
- Portuguese: indestrutível (pt)
- Romanian: indestructibil (ro) m or n
- Russian: неруши́мый (ru) (nerušímyj), неразруши́мый (ru) (nerazrušímyj)
- Spanish: indestructible
- Swedish: oförstörbar (sv), outplånlig (sv), oförgänglig
- Ukrainian: незнище́нний (neznyščénnyj), незруйно́вний (nezrujnóvnyj)
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See also
References
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E Smith, editors (1911), “indestructible”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
- “indestructible”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Catalan
Etymology
From in- + destructible.
Pronunciation
Adjective
indestructible m or f (masculine and feminine plural indestructibles)
- indestructible
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin indestructibilis.
By surface analysis, in- + destructible.
Pronunciation
Adjective
indestructible (plural indestructibles)
- indestructible
- Antonym: destructible
Further reading
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /indestɾuɡˈtible/
- Rhymes: -ible
- Syllabification: in‧des‧truc‧ti‧ble
Adjective
indestructible m or f (masculine and feminine plural indestructibles)
- indestructible
- Antonym: destructible
Derived terms
Further reading