unsplinterable

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   resistant or impossible to split, shatter, or break into sharp fragments

   In his imagined heaven, the mourners would toast with unsplinterable glasses.

A transparent formation from un-, meaning not, and splinterable, itself splinter plus -able. The word may describe material engineered not to produce splinters or, in literary use, something imagined as incapable of breaking apart.

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