brittle
IPA: brˈɪtʌɫ
noun
- A confection of caramelized sugar and nuts.
- (by extension) Anything resembling this confection, such as flapjack, a cereal bar, etc.
- A surname.
verb
- (intransitive) To become brittle.
- (transitive, obsolete) To gut.
adjective
- Inflexible; liable to break, snap, or shatter easily under stress, pressure, or impact.
- Not physically tough or tenacious; apt to break or crumble when bending.
- (archaeology) Said of rocks and minerals with a conchoidal fracture; capable of being knapped or flaked.
- Emotionally fragile, easily offended.
- (engineering, computing, of a system) Poorly error- or fault-tolerant; having little in the way of redundancy or defense in depth; susceptible to catastrophic failure in the event of a relatively-minor malfunction or deviance.
- (informal, proscribed) Diabetes that is characterized by dramatic swings in blood sugar level.
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Examples of "brittle" in Sentences
- Senescent people become brittle and weak.
- The opposite of brittleness is ductility.
- The brittle stars were small in the photo.
- The brittle flesh is yellow and the taste mild.
- In senescent people many of these become brittle and weak.
- The leaf will become brittle and the plant will defoliate.
- The cutting edge of the blade is brittle but extremely sharp.
- Embrittlement is a loss of ductility of a material, making it brittle.
- One of the main effects of cadmium poisoning is weak and brittle bones.
- The entire fruiting body is quite fragile and brittle and the stipe is hollow.
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