durable

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: du=ra=ble

OXFORD DICTIONARY

durable, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 capable of lasting; hard-wearing.
2 (of goods) not for immediate consumption; able to be kept.
--n. (in pl.) durable goods.

Derivative

durability n. durableness n. durably adv.

Etymology

ME f. OF f. L durabilis f. durare endure f. durus hard

THESAURUS

durable

abiding, adamantine, age-long, aged, ancient, antique, bulky, cartilaginous, changeless, chewy, chronic, cohesive, constant, continuing, coriaceous, dense, dependable, diuturnal, enduring, evergreen, fast, fibrous, firm, fixed, frozen, gristly, hard, hardy, heavy, immobile, immutable, indestructible, intact, intransient, inveterate, inviolate, lasting, leatherlike, leathery, long-lasting, long-lived, long-standing, long-term, longeval, longevous, macrobiotic, massive, of long duration, of long standing, perdurable, perduring, perennial, permanent, perpetual, persistent, persisting, quiescent, reliable, remaining, resistant, rigid, ropy, rugged, sempervirent, sinewy, solid, sound, stable, static, stationary, staying, steadfast, steady, stiff, stout, stringy, strong, stubborn, sturdy, substantial, sustained, tenacious, torpid, tough, tough as leather, unaltered, unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging, unchecked, undestroyed, unfading, unfailing, unshifting, untiring, unvaried, unvarying, unyielding, vigorous, viscid, vital, well-built, well-constructed, well-founded, well-grounded, well-made, wiry

ROGET THESAURUS

durable

Diuturnity

N diuturnity, a long time, a length of time, an age, a century, an eternity, slowness, perpetuity, blue moon, coon's age, dog's age, durableness, durability, persistence, endlessness, lastingness, continuance, standing, permanence, survival, survivance, longevity, distance of time, protraction of time, prolongation of time, extension of time, delay, durable, lasting, of long duration, of long-standing, permanent, endless, chronic, long-standing, intransient, intransitive, intransmutable, persistent, lifelong, livelong, longeval, long-lived, macrobiotic, diuturnal, evergreen, perennial, sempervirent, sempervirid, unrelenting, unintermitting, unremitting, perpetual, lingering, protracted, prolonged, spun out, long-pending, long-winded, slow, long, for a long time, for an age, for ages, for ever so long, for many a long day, long ago, longo intervallo, all the day long, all the year round, the livelong day, as the day is long, morning noon and night, hour after hour, day after day, for good, permanently.

Stability

N stability, immutability, unchangeability unchangeableness, constancy, stable equilibrium, immobility, soundness, vitality, stabiliment, stiffness, ankylosis, solidity, aplomb, establishment, fixture, rock, pillar, tower, foundation, leopard's spots, Ethiopia's skin, permanence, obstinacy, unchangeable, immutable, unaltered, unalterable, not to be changed, constant, permanent, invariable, undeviating, stable, durable, perennial, fixed, steadfast, firm, fast, steady, balanced, confirmed, valid, fiducial, immovable, irremovable, riveted, rooted, settled, established, vested, incontrovertible, stereotyped, indeclinable, tethered, anchored, moored, at anchor, on a rock, rock solid, firm as a rock, firmly seated, firmly established, deep-rooted, ineradicable, inveterate, obstinate, transfixed, stuck fast, aground, high and dry, stranded, stuck, jammed, unremovable, quiescent, deterioration, indefeasible, irretrievable, intransmutable, incommutable, irresoluble, irrevocable, irreversible, reverseless, inextinguishable, irreducible, indissoluble, indissolvable, indestructible, undying, imperishable, incorruptible, indelible, indeciduous, insusceptible, insusceptible of change, Int, stet, littera scripta manet.