durable
Able to resist wear or decay; lasting; enduring.
Adjective
- Able to resist wear or decay; lasting; enduring.
- Near-synonyms: persistent, long-lasting, lasting, hard-wearing; see also Thesaurus:lasting
- durable batteries
- I forged a durable relationship with my seatmate.
Synonyms: persistent long-lasting lasting hard-wearing abiding chronic continuate diuturnal durable durative endurable enduring extending long-drawn-out longevous longsome perdurable prolonged protracted
Antonyms: undurable nondurable unlasting ephemeral transient transitory consumable perishable abiding chronic continuate diuturnal durable durative endurable enduring extending hard-wearing lasting long-drawn-out long-lasting longevous longsome perdurable
Origin
From Middle English durable, from Old French durable, from Latin dūrābilis (“lasting, permanent”), from dūrō (“harden, make hard”).
Forms
Derived
durability durable good durable medical equipment durableness durably semidurable superdurable ultradurable undurable
Noun
- A durable thing, one useful over more than one period, especially a year.
- In a frictionless world with perfect rental markets, there is an unambiguous cost associated with the use of a durable for a single period. - 1989, Robert A. Pollak, The theory of the cost-of-living index, page 188: