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What is the adjective for shattering?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb shatter which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

shattered
  1. physically broken into pieces
  2. emotionally defeated or dispirited
  3. (Britain, colloquial) extremely tired or exhausted
  4. Synonyms:
      5. broken, disintegrated, fractured, fragmented, smashed, ruptured, splintered, busted, crumbled, crushed, separated, shredded, snapped, split, chipped, demolished, destroyed, slivered, in bits, in pieces, in smithereens, in smithers, cracked, mashed, severed, shivered, cleft, torn, burst, fissured, wrecked, collapsed, pulverised, pulverized, riven, rent, bitty, scrappy, uneven, patchy, disjointed, fragmentary, disconnected, fragmental, part, sketchy, incoherent, piecemeal, unsystematic, inconsistent … more
  5. Examples:
      6. “She weaved her way to the door, opening it gently to avoid dislodging the shattered glass.”
      “We were shattered to hear the news that our old friend was in strife.”
      “I well and truly shattered after a tough day in the office.”
shatterproof
  1. Resistant to shattering; difficult to break.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. resistant, unbreakable, toughened, durable, indestructible, reinforced, nonbreaking, firm, stout, infrangible, sturdy, unyielding, long-lasting, heavy-duty, non-breakable, hard-wearing, made to last, imperishable, undestroyable, unwreckable, unruinable, undestructable, irrefrangible, irrefragable, adamantine, incorruptible, armored, armoured, indissoluble, rock-solid, ineradicable, inexterminable, eternal, everlasting, solid, lasting, strong, nonbreakable, rugged, tight, unshakable, resilient, tough, brass-bound, invulnerable, hard, perdurable, permanent, nonperishable, adamant … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Dull pain throbbed in the back of her head where her skull had collided with the shatterproof glass.”
      “There was clear glass behind him, reinforced stuff, shatterproof, stormproof, and beyond it was a creature.”
      “The last glass door wasn't really glass, but a blue bullet and shatterproof plasteel.”
shatterable
  1. That can be shattered.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. breakable, fragile, weak, brittle, frail, flimsy, frangible, delicate, insubstantial, crumbly, fracturable, friable, splintery, destructible, shattery, crisp, crispy, vitreous, easily broken, easily damaged, vulnerable, decrepit, smashable, flakey, easily destroyed, unsound, embrittled, flaky, ramshackle, brickle, crumbling, fine, dodgy, unstable, destroyable, feeble, eggshell, crunchy, dainty, precarious, tenuous, insecure, tender, rickety, disintegrating, decaying, crusty, short, dry, falling to pieces … more
shattering
  1. present participle of shatter
  2. Synonyms:
      3. splitting, fracturing, splintering, cracking, bursting, smashing, fragmenting, disintegrating, exploding, riving, busting, shivering, rending, snapping, crunching, fragmentizing, imploding, scrunching, crashing, impairing, smattering, breaking down, smashing to smithereens, blowing out, blowing apart, crushing to smithereens, breaking into pieces, breaking, breaking up, rupturing, dividing, separating, severing, demolishing, crumbling, dismembering, disrupting, coming apart, blowing, popping, blowing up, falling to pieces, crushing, tearing, blasting, crumping, pulverizing, falling apart, cleaving, falling to bits … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “A distant acquaintance of mine, who has an African mother and a French father, came out with a shattering truth.”
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