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Synonyms

shatterproof

American  
[shat-er-proof] / ˈʃæt ərˌpruf /

adjective

  1. designed or made to resist shattering.

    shatterproof glass in automobile windows.


shatterproof British  
/ ˈʃætəˌpruːf /

adjective

  1. designed to resist shattering

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of shatterproof

First recorded in 1935–40; shatter + -proof

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Better mirrors, better brakes and shatterproof windshields became standard.

From The Wall Street Journal May 2, 2026

Another person who has worked with Malinin called him “cocky,” in the brazen shatterproof manner of a teenager who has beaten the world and realizes he can keep doing it.

From Washington Post Jan. 26, 2023

Department of Homeland Security in late 2021, Maricopa strengthened doors, added shatterproof film on windows and bought more first aid kits, according to the documents.

From Reuters Nov. 6, 2022

He is notoriously late on deadlines and famously once told an audience at a demonstration that the glass on the Tesla cybertruck prototype was shatterproof, before it shattered onstage.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 1, 2022

I know why there is no glass, in front of the watercolor picture of blue irises, and why the window opens only partly and why the glass in it is shatterproof.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

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