indestructible
/ɪndɪˈstrʌktɪb(ə)l
/adjective
Not able to be destroyed: indestructible plastic containers...
- Their indestructible cars helped destroy the environment in which they lived.
- It is the same land, which stands firmer than any rock in the world, with its undying vigour, indestructible life.
- Asbestos fibres are indestructible - they are resistant to chemicals and heat.
Synonyms
unbreakable, shatterproof, non-breakable;
toughened, sturdy, stout, hard-wearing, heavy-duty, resistant, durable, lasting, made to last;
enduring, everlasting, perennial, deathless, undying, immortal, endless, inextinguishable, imperishable, ineradicable, long-lasting
literary adamantine
rare infrangible
Derivatives
indestructibility
/ noun ...- Faith in the indestructibility of the soul depends on at least some contact with the soul while most of us are creatures of body, life and mind.
- We're all a bit more image-conscious these days, and most of us aspire to greater fitness, especially once we get out of our twenties and lose that feeling of indestructibility.
- Is this sort of ignorance a sign of something missing in the education of these teenagers, or is it simply a sign of their own perceived indestructibility?
indestructibly
- It can be savage, unpredictable, ecstactic, indestructibly powerful, pleasurable, a kind of primordial music that is beyond the mere phenomenology of representation.
- Susan-the-robot was regarded as being indestructibly powerful, unstoppable and practically all-knowing, with unlimited capabilities and possessing vast powers of alien calculation.
- The play's depiction of amateur drama, coupled with its equal balance of roles and indestructibly comic plotting, has made it a perennial favourite of amateur companies.