brittle
Meaning of brittle
adjective
- hard but liable to break easily.
her bones became fragile and brittle
- a brittle sweet made from nuts and set melted sugar.
peanut brittle
late Middle English, ultimately of Germanic origin and related to Old English brēotan ‘break up’.
Information about brittle
- The plural form of brittle is: brittles.
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Hyphenation of brittle
brit-tle
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- brittle is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
brittle synonyms
Meaning brickle:
Meaning unannealed:
Meaning toffee:
Meaning capable of breaking or being broken easily:
Meaning (of an object) easily broken or damaged:
Meaning (of a person) weak and delicate:
Meaning very fine in texture or structure; of intricate workmanship or quality:
Meaning able to be broken into fragments; brittle or fragile:
Meaning unable to bend or be forced out of shape; not flexible:
Meaning solid, firm, and rigid; not easily broken, bent, or pierced:
Meaning (of a substance) firm, dry, and brittle:
brittle antonyms
Meaning capable of bending easily without breaking:
Meaning (of a person or animal) able to withstand or recover quickly from difficult conditions:
Translation of brittle
- Italian: fragile
- French: cassant
- German: spröde
- Portuguese: quebradiço
- Spanish: quebradizo, quebradiza
Anagrams of brittle
Words that rhyme with brittle
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