Able to be broken; easily broken or likely to break.
From 'break' (Old English 'brecan') plus '-able' (from Latin '-abilis'). Standard formation indicating capacity or tendency, common since Middle English.
Parents know which toys are 'breakable'—but the word also appears in chemistry and physics to describe substances with low tensile strength, making it useful across everyday and scientific language.
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