damageable

Susceptible to harm

Damageable describes something capable of being damaged—susceptible to harm, injury, or impairment.

The term appears most often in legal, insurance, and technical contexts: damageable goods must be handled with care, The contract specifies liability for damageable property.

Unlike fragile, which suggests inherent delicacy, damageable simply indicates that damage is possible under certain conditions.

fragile

breakable

Capable of shattering

smashable · brittle · crushable · snappable · destructible · rupturable · tearable · friable · delicate · flimsy

vulnerable

susceptible

Easily influenced or harmed

at-risk · endangered · assailable · penetrable · unshielded · undefended · weak · precarious · liable · threatened

Opposites
vulnerability to harm

damageableindestructible

Impossible to damage permanently

undamageable · invulnerable · impervious · unbreakable · invincible

Family

damage, damaged, damaging, damages, undamaged, damagingly, undamaging

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Used worldwide · Timeless · Everyday, not technical · Rated G