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1. (adj.) brittle
having hardness and rigidity but little tensile strength; breaking readily with a comparatively smooth fracture, as glass.
2. brittle
easily damaged or destroyed; fragile; frail.
3. brittle
lacking warmth, sensitivity, or compassion; cold.
4. brittle
having a sharp, tense quality:
a brittle tone of voice.
5. brittle
unstable or impermanent; evanescent.
6. (n.) brittle
a confection of melted sugar, usu. with nuts, brittle when cooled.
7. (v.i.) brittle
to be or become brittle.
Etymology: (1350–1400; ME britel)
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1. (adj) brittle, toffee, toffy
caramelized sugar cooled in thin sheets
2. (adj) brittle, brickle, brickly
having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped
"brittle bones"; "glass is brittle"; "`brickle' and `brickly' are dialectal"
3. (adj) brittle
lacking warmth and generosity of spirit
"a brittle and calculating woman"
4. (adj) brittle, unannealed
(of metal or glass) not annealed and consequently easily cracked or fractured
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1. (adjective) brittle
delicate and easily broken
brittle bones
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (adj) brittle
easily broken; apt to break; fragile; not tough or tenacious
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The New Hacker's Dictionary |
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1. brittle
Said of software that is functional but easily broken by changes in
operating environment or configuration, or by any minor tweak to the
software itself. Also, any system that responds inappropriately and
disastrously to abnormal but expected external stimuli; e.g., a file system
that is usually totally scrambled by a power failure is said to be brittle.
This term is often used to describe the results of a research effort that
were never intended to be robust, but it can be applied to commercial
software, which (due to closed-source development) displays the quality far
more often than it ought to. Oppose robust.
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Sense: hard but easily broken
brittle materials.
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 Afrikaans: bros, breekbaar |
 Arabic: قَصيمٌ، سَريعُ الأنكِسار |
 Bulgarian: трошлив |
 Brazilian: quebradiço |
 Czech: křehký |
 German: spröde |
 Danish: skør |
 Greek: εύθραυστος |
 Spanish: quebradizo |
 Estonian: rabe |
 Farsi: ترد؛ شکننده |
 Finnish: hauras |
 French: cassant |
 Hebrew: קָשֶה וְשָבִיר |
 Hindi: भुरभुरा, भंगुर |
 Croatian: krhak |
 Hungarian: törékeny |
 Indonesian: rapuh |
 Italian: fragile, friabile |
 Japanese: 砕けやすい |
 Korean: 깨지기 쉬운 |
 Lithuanian: dužus, trapus |
 Latvian: trausls; viegli plīstošs |
 Malay: rapuh |
 Dutch: broos |
 Norwegian: sprø, skjør |
 Polish: kruchy |
 Persian: ترد؛ شکننده |
 Pashto: ماتیدونکی |
 Portuguese: quebradiço |
 Romanian: casant, fragil |
 Russian: хрупкий |
 Slovak: krehký |
 Slovenian: krhek |
 Serbian: krt |
 Swedish: spröd, skör |
 Thai: เปราะ |
 Turkish: kolay kırılır |
 Taiwanese: 脆且易碎的 |
 Ukrainian: крихкий, ламкий |
 Urdu: آسانی سے ٹوٹنے والا ، ناز |
 Vietnamese: dễ vỡ |
 Chinese: 易碎的 |
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