destructible

From destruct +‎ -ible.

• IPA^(key): /dɪˈstɹʌktɪbəl/

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destructible (comparative more destructible, superlative most destructible)

1. Liable to destruction; capable of being destroyed.

• breakable, destroyable, wreckable
• See also Thesaurus:fragile

• indestructible, undestroyable, unbreakable, unwreckable (incapable of being destroyed)
• constructible, producible (capable of being constructed)

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “destructible”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “destructible”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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Borrowed from Latin destructibilis (“destroyable”), from Latin dēstructiōnem (“destruction”) and -ibilis (“-ible”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [dəs.tɾukˈtib.blə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [des.tɾukˈti.ble]

destructible m or f (masculine and feminine plural destructibles)

1. destructible

• indestructible

• “destructible”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.

Borrowed from Latin destructibilis (“destroyable”), from Latin dēstructiōnem (“destruction”) and -ibilis (“-ible”).

• IPA^(key): /dɛs.tʁyk.tibl/

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destructible (plural destructibles)

1. destructible

• “destructible”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from Latin destructibilis (“destroyable”), from Latin dēstructiōnem (“destruction”) and -ibilis (“-ible”).

• IPA^(key): /destɾuɡˈtible/ [d̪es.t̪ɾuɣ̞ˈt̪i.β̞le]
• Rhymes: -ible
• Syllabification: des‧truc‧ti‧ble

destructible m or f (masculine and feminine plural destructibles)

1. destructible

   Synonym: destruible

   Antonym: indestructible

• “destructible”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024