destroyable

Able to wreck

Destroyable means capable of being destroyed—able to be ruined, demolished, or eliminated.

The word appears most often in video games, where certain objects or structures can be broken while others cannot: The walls in this level are destroyable.

Outside gaming contexts, destructible is more common.

physical

breakable

Capable of shattering

frangible · crackable · rupturable · tearable · snappable · cleavable · collapsible · grindable · brittle · incinerable

fragile

delicate

Easily broken or harmed

gossamer · diaphanous · wispy · gauzy · feathery · dainty · cobwebby · papery · eggshell · threadbare

temporal

ephemeral

Lasting very briefly

perishable · short-lived · evanescent · passing · momentary · transitory · decaying · fading · finite · disposable

vulnerable

exposed

Out in open

assailable · attackable · penetrable · unshielded · undefended · endangered · threatened · at-risk · targetable · damageable

Opposites
susceptibility to destruction

destroyableindestructible

Impossible to damage permanently

undestroyable · unbreakable · imperishable · invincible · invulnerable

Family

undestroyable

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated G