- BRITTLE Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
brittle implies hardness together with lack of elasticity or flexibility or toughness
- BRITTLE Definition Meaning | Dictionary. com
BRITTLE definition: having hardness and rigidity but little tensile strength; breaking readily with a comparatively smooth fracture, as glass See examples of brittle used in a sentence
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Definition of brittle adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more
- BRITTLE definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary
An object or substance that is brittle is hard but easily broken Pine is brittle and breaks the dry, brittle ends of the hair If you describe a situation, relationship, or someone's mood as brittle, you mean that it is unstable, and may easily change
- brittle - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
brittle (comparative brittler or more brittle, superlative brittlest or most brittle) Inflexible; liable to break, snap, or shatter easily under stress, pressure, or impact; crackly quotations
- Brittle - definition of brittle by The Free Dictionary
1 a Likely to break, snap, or crack, as when subjected to pressure: brittle bones b Easily damaged or disrupted; fragile: a brittle friendship See Synonyms at fragile 2 a Difficult to deal with; snappish: a brittle disposition
- brittle - WordReference. com Dictionary of English
lacking warmth, sensitivity, or compassion; aloof; self-centered: a self-possessed, cool, and rather brittle person having a sharp, tense quality: a brittle tone of voice unstable or impermanent; evanescent n a confection of melted sugar, usually with nuts, brittle when cooled: peanut brittle v i to be or become brittle; crumble
- brittle, adj. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English Dictionary
brittle, adj meanings, etymology, pronunciation and more in the Oxford English Dictionary
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