INDESTRUCTIBLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does indestructible mean? 

• INDESTRUCTIBLE (adjective)
  The adjective INDESTRUCTIBLE has 2 senses:

1. not easily destroyed

2. very long lasting

  Familiarity information: INDESTRUCTIBLE used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INDESTRUCTIBLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not easily destroyed

Similar:

undestroyable (not capable of being destroyed)

Attribute:

destructibility (vulnerability to destruction)

Antonym:

destructible (easily destroyed)

Derivation:

indestructibility (the strength to resist destruction)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Very long lasting

Synonyms:

durable; indestructible; perdurable; undestroyable

Context example:

the perdurable granite of the ancient Appalachian spine of the continent

Similar:

imperishable (not perishable)

 Context examples 

The research team noticed that all the mutations in CRIA patients occur at the location where RIPK1 usually gets cut, resulting in an uncuttable, seemingly indestructible RIPK1 protein.

(Researchers discover new autoinflammatory disease and uncover its biological cause, National Institutes of Health)

I did not then know that it was no transitory blossom, but rather the radiant resemblance of one, cut in an indestructible gem.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)