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Durable vs Indelible - What's the difference?

durable | indelible |

As adjectives the difference between durable and indelible

is that durable is able to resist wear, decay; lasting; enduring while indelible is having the quality of being difficult to delete, remove, wash away, blot out, or efface.

As a noun durable

is (economics) a durable good, one useful over more than one period, especially a year.

durable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Able to resist wear, decay; lasting; enduring.

    • Synonyms

    * permanent

    Antonyms

    * weak * vulnerable * transitory

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (economics) A durable good, one useful over more than one period, especially a year.
  • *

    • Antonyms

    * nondurable ----

    indelible

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • having the quality of being difficult to delete, remove, wash away, blot out, or efface
    • This ink spot on the contract is indelible .
    This stain on my shirt is indelible .
  • incapable of being canceled, lost, or forgotten
    • That horrible story just might make an indelible impression on the memory.
  • * 2014 , (Ruzwana Bashir), " The untold story of how a culture of shame perpetuates abuse. I know, I was a victim", The Guardian , 29 August 2014:
    • During our investigation it became clear that for three decades many other women had suffered at the hands of our abuser, but they had refused to testify against him because of the indelible stigma it would bring.
  • incapable of being annulled
  • * Sprat
    • They are endued with indelible power from above.

    Related terms

    * indelibility * indelibly

    Synonyms

    * unerasable

    Antonyms

    * delible * (difficult to delete) uninsertable