indestructible


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Synonyms for indestructible

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for indestructible

not easily destroyed

Antonyms

very long lasting

Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003-2012 Princeton University, Farlex Inc.
References in classic literature ?
In its printed form, thought is more imperishable than ever; it is volatile, irresistible, indestructible. It is mingled with the air.
A soft, indestructible automaton provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle.
They are almost indestructible. Stumps thirty or forty years old, at least, will still be sound at the core, though the sapwood has all become vegetable mould, as appears by the scales of the thick bark forming a ring level with the earth four or five inches distant from the heart.
What I saw in him -- as evidently as the indestructible ramparts of Old Ticonderoga, already cited as the most appropriate simile -- was the features of stubborn and ponderous endurance, which might well have amounted to obstinacy in his earlier days; of integrity, that, like most of his other endowments, lay in a somewhat heavy mass, and was just as unmalleable or unmanageable as a ton of iron ore; and of benevolence which, fiercely as he led the bayonets on at Chippewa or Fort Erie, I take to be of quite as genuine a stamp as what actuates any or all the polemical philanthropists of the age.
The wiser effort would have been to diffuse thought and imagination through the opaque substance of to-day, and thus to make it a bright transparency; to spiritualise the burden that began to weigh so heavily; to seek, resolutely, the true and indestructible value that lay hidden in the petty and wearisome incidents, and ordinary characters with which I was now conversant.
The shavings flew right and left; till at last the plane-iron came bump against an indestructible knot.
Every word she uttered--every idea she formed and expressed, was an inexhaustible and indestructible impulse." He paused, considered a little further, and relapsed into gloom, adding, "and the dozen others whose names will be with hers in the 'Times' to-morrow?
"But," she exclaimed, suddenly, "arsenic is indelible, indestructible; in whatsoever way it is absorbed, it will be found again in the body of the victim from the moment when it has been taken in sufficient quantity to cause death."
Next these were large sticks, sound, black, and heavy, which had lost the principle of decay, and were indestructible except by fire, wherein they glowed like red-hot bars of iron.
THOUSANDS of Earth's most indestructible microscopic animals could be alive on the moon, it has emerged.
A farewell ceremony was held for military personnel of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Turkey involved in the Azerbaijani-Turkish Live-Firing Joint Tactical Exercises "Indestructible Brotherhood-2019",Trendreports referring to the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry.
Portugal's national team are an "almost indestructible family", coach Fernando Santos said on Sunday after they added the inaugural Nations League to their Euro 2016 title.
As with all its products, Indestructible Paint has also paid close attention to its customers' differing order requirements for this latest paint stripping innovation.
ADESPERATE Welsh dad has designed "indestructible" school shoes - because he was so fed up with his son's pairs falling apart.