Word Meanings - DURABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Able to endure or continue in a particular condition; lasting; not perishable or changeable; not wearing out or decaying soon; enduring; as, durable cloth; durable happiness. Riches and honor are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness. Prov.

Additional info about word: DURABLE

Able to endure or continue in a particular condition; lasting; not perishable or changeable; not wearing out or decaying soon; enduring; as, durable cloth; durable happiness. Riches and honor are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness. Prov. viii. 18. An interest which from its object and grounds must be so durable. De Quincey. Syn. -- Lasting; permanent; enduring; firm; stable; continuing; constant; persistent. See Lasting.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DURABLE)

• Stable
• firm
• established
• secure
• steady
• constant
• unwavering
• durable
• stanch
• permanent
• firmly fixed
• solid
• steadfast
• lasting
• perpetual

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DURABLE)

• Loosen
• betray
• surrender
• expose
• imperil
• endanger
• open
• liberate
• free

Related words: (words related to DURABLE)

• SOLIDARE
  A small piece of money. Shak.
• LAST
  of Last, to endure, contracted from lasteth. Chaucer.
• STANCH
  akin to Pr., Sp., & Pg. estancar, It. stancare to weary, LL. stancare, stagnare, to stanch, fr. L. stagnare to be or make 1. To stop the flowing of, as blood; to check; also, to stop the flowing of blood from; as, to stanch a wound. Iron or a stone
• EXPOSER
  One who exposes or discloses.
• LASTERY
  A red color. Spenser.
• LASTE
  of Last, to endure. Chaucer.
• STANCHLESS
  1. Incapable of being stanched, or stopped. 2. Unquenchable; insatiable. Shak.
• STABLENESS
  The quality or state of being stable, or firmly established; stability.
• SOLIDUNGULA
  A tribe of ungulates which includes the horse, ass, and related species, constituting the family Equidæ.
• STABLEBOY; STABLEMAN
  A boy or man who attends in a stable; a groom; a hostler.
• EXPOSEDNESS
  The state of being exposed, laid open, or unprotected; as, an exposedness to sin or temptation.
• CONSTANTIA
  A superior wine, white and red, from Constantia, in Cape Colony.
• FIXTURE
  Anything of an accessory character annexed to houses and lands, so as to constitute a part of them. This term is, however, quite frequently used in the peculiar sense of personal chattels annexed to lands and tenements, but removable by the person
• SECURER
  One who, or that which, secures.
• BETRAYAL
  The act or the result of betraying.
• SECURENESS
  The condition or quality of being secure; exemption from fear; want of vigilance; security.
• EXPOSE
  1. To set forth; to set out to public view; to exhibit; to show; to display; as, to expose goods for sale; to expose pictures to public inspection. Those who seek truth only, freely expose their principles to the test, and are pleased to have them
• SOLIDUNGULATE
  See SOLIPED
• ESTABLISHMENTARIAN
  One who regards the Church primarily as an establishment formed by the State, and overlooks its intrinsic spiritual character. Shipley.
• SOLIDATE
  To make solid or firm. Cowley.
• PROPLASTIC
  Forming a mold.
• POSTABLE
  Capable of being carried by, or as by, post. W. Montagu.
• ODONTOPLAST
  An odontoblast.
• INTESTABLE
  Not capable of making a will; not legally qualified or competent to make a testament. Blackstone.
• REFIX
  To fix again or anew; to establish anew. Fuller.
• EVERLASTINGLY
  In an everlasting manner.
• CONSTABLESS
  The wife of a constable.
• AFFIX
  figere to fasten: cf. OE. affichen, F. afficher, ultimately fr. L. 1. To subjoin, annex, or add at the close or end; to append to; to fix to any part of; as, to affix a syllable to a word; to affix a seal to an instrument; to affix one's name to
• APLASTIC
  Not plastic or easily molded.
• LABIOPLASTY
  A plastic operation for making a new lip, or for replacing a lost tissue of a lip.
• EMPLASTER
  See WISEMAN (more info) plaster or salve, fr. Gr.
• STOMATOPLASTIC
  Of or pertaining to the operation of forming a mouth where the aperture has been contracted, or in any way deformed.
• MONOPLAST
  A monoplastic element.
• DEFIX
  To fix; to fasten; to establish. "To defix their princely seat . . . in that extreme province." Hakluyt.
• AFFIXION
  Affixture. T. Adams.
• WOLLASTON'S DOUBLET
  A magnifying glass consisting of two plano-convex lenses. It is designed to correct spherical aberration and chromatic dispersion.