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Durable vs Serviceable - What's the difference?

durable | serviceable |

As adjectives the difference between durable and serviceable

is that durable is able to resist wear, decay; lasting; enduring while serviceable is easy to service.

As a noun durable

is 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.
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  • Antonyms

    * nondurable ----

    serviceable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Easy to service.
  • Repairable instead of disposable.
  • In condition for use.
  • *1719- , (w), (Robinson Crusoe)
  • *:I employed myself in making, as well as I could, a great many baskets, both to carry earth or to carry or lay up anything, as I had occasion; and though I did not finish them very handsomely, yet I made them sufficiently serviceable for my purpose...
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  • *:There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
  • Synonyms

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