destructible
Able to break
Destructible means capable of being destroyed.
The word appears most often in contexts where this quality matters—gaming environments where objects can be damaged or broken, philosophical discussions of what persists versus what perishes, or legal documents specifying what may be demolished.
The game features fully destructible buildings.
The opposite is indestructible.
Lasting very briefly
- transientTemporary, soon departing
- fleetingPassing very quickly
- temporaryLimited in duration
- perishableProne to decay
decaying · biodegradable · decomposable · evanescent · short-lived · mortal · finite · mutable
Able to fragment
- smashableCapable of being shattered
- crushableAble to be squashed
- frangibleCapable of being broken
- rupturableAble to burst open
snappable · tearable · collapsible · dismantlable · disassemblable · severable · crumbly · brittle
Out in open
- defenselessWithout means to resist
- unprotectedWithout safeguard or shield
- assailableOpen to attack
- susceptibleEasily influenced or harmed
endangered · threatened · precarious · unsafe · attackable · penetrable · conquerable · vincible
ephemeral
Lasting very briefly
perishable · decaying · biodegradable · decomposable · evanescent · short-lived · mortal · finite · mutable · corrodible
shatterable
Able to fragment
rupturable · snappable · tearable · collapsible · dismantlable · disassemblable · severable · crumbly · brittle · damageable
exposed
Out in open
- defenselessWithout means to resist
- unprotectedWithout safeguard or shield
- assailableOpen to attack
susceptible · endangered · threatened · precarious · unsafe · attackable · penetrable · conquerable · vincible · damageable
- vulnerabilityvulnerability, vulnerable, defenselessness, defenseless, helplessness
destructibleindestructible
Impossible to damage permanently
undestroyable · unbreakable · invulnerable · impervious · invincible
destructibledurable
Able to withstand use
eternal · imperishable · permanent · enduring · everlasting