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ˈbrɪt lbrit·tle

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  1. brittlenoun

    Synonyms:
    brickle

  2. brittlenoun

    Inflexible, liable to break or snap easily under stress or pressure.

    Synonyms:
    brickle

  3. brittleadjective

    Not physically tough or tenacious; apt to break or crumble when bending.

    Synonyms:
    brickle

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. brittle, toffee, toffyadjective

    caramelized sugar cooled in thin sheets

    Synonyms:
    toffy, toffee

    Antonyms:
    tempered, warmhearted, unbreakable, treated, hardened, toughened

  2. brittle, brickle, bricklyadjective

    having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped

    "brittle bones"; "glass is brittle"; "`brickle' and `brickly' are dialectal"

    Synonyms:
    brickly, unannealed, brickle

    Antonyms:
    unbreakable, treated, toughened, warmhearted, tempered, hardened

  3. brittleadjective

    lacking warmth and generosity of spirit

    "a brittle and calculating woman"

    Synonyms:
    brickly, unannealed, brickle

    Antonyms:
    toughened, treated, warmhearted, unbreakable, tempered, hardened

  4. brittle, unannealedadjective

    (of metal or glass) not annealed and consequently easily cracked or fractured

    Synonyms:
    brickly, unannealed, brickle

    Antonyms:
    unbreakable, toughened, warmhearted, hardened, tempered, treated

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. brittleadjective

    Synonyms:
    fragile, crumbling, shivery, frail, frangible, BRASH, easily broken (into pieces), easily shivered

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  1. brittleadjective

    Synonyms:
    frangible, crisp, friable

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "brittle":

    friable, fragile, frail

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How to use brittle in a sentence?

  1. Edi Rama:

    Peace is brittle and a big burden on our shoulders so we need ... concrete help from the European Union and the European Commission, we can get more support together than on our own, to maximize the gains for our peoples.

  2. Dwight D Eisenhower:

    From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.

  3. Paul Byrne:

    Think of like a Milky Way bar or a Mars bar, its where the chocolate and caramel touch, that depth, you can treat that as the thickness of the brittle, rigid layer.

  4. Esther Perel:

    If a man sees a woman as brittle, he may love her with a sense of extra burden.

  5. Christine Lagarde:

    We believe that global growth is still too low, too brittle and too lopsided.


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