Defenition of the word brittle

• Defenition of the word brittle

  • Having hardness and rigidity but little tensile strength.
  • lacking warmth and generosity of spirit; "a brittle and calculating woman"
  • having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped; "brittle bones"; "glass is brittle"; "`brickle' and `brickly' are dialectal"
  • caramelized sugar cooled in thin sheets
  • (of metal or glass) not annealed and consequently easily cracked or fractured
  • having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped; "brittle bones"; "glass is brittle"; "`brickle'' and `brickly'' are dialectal"
  • having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped
  • lacking warmth and generosity of spirit

Synonyms for the word brittle

• • breakable
  • brickle
  • brickly
  • delicate
  • easily broken
  • fragile
  • frail
  • toffee
  • toffy
  • unannealed
  • weak

Similar words in the brittle

• • breakable
  • brittle
  • brittleness
  • brittleness's
  • brittler
  • brittlest
  • coldhearted
  • unhardened
  • untempered

Hyponyms for the word brittle

• • peanut brittle

Hypernyms for the word brittle

• • candy
  • confect

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