Brittle

Adjective

 * 1) Inflexible, may break or snap easily under stress or pressure.
 * 2) Not physically tough or tenacious; apt to break or crumble when bending.
 * 3)  Said of rocks and minerals with a conchoidal fracture; capable of being knapped or flaked.
 * 4) Emotionally fragile, easily offended.

Noun

 * 1) A confection of caramelized sugar and nuts.

Adverbs for Brittle
unfortunately; regrettably; exceedingly; smartly; delicately; crisply; lamentably; deplorably; deceptively; unexpectedly; surprisingly; slightly; highly; overly; extremely; evidently; unprofitably; unserviceably; inconveniently; impracticably.

Synonyms for Brittle

 * brickle, fragile, weak, delicate, breakable, frail, thin, slender, tenuous.

Antonyms for Brittle
tough, strong, unbreakable, resistible, durable.

Related terms

 * brittleness

Thesaurus
flimsy, flitting, fly-by-night, flying, fracturable, fragile, frail, frangible, friable, fugacious, fugitive, gimcrack, gimcracky, gossamery, impermanent, impetuous, impulsive, inconstant, insecure, insubstantial, jerry, jerry-built, lacerable, light, lightweight, momentary, mortal, mutable, namby-pamby, nondurable, nonpermanent, papery, parchmenty, passing, pasteboardy, perishable, puny, scissile, sensitive, sere, shatterable, shattery, shivery, short-lived, shriveled, shrunken, sissified, sleazy, slight, splintery, tacky, temporal, temporary, transient, transitive, transitory, undurable, unenduring, unstable, unsubstantial, volatile, vulnerable, wasted, weak, wilted, wispy, withered, wizened, womanish, wrinkled, atrophied, breakable, brittle as glass, capricious, changeable, cheap-jack, cobwebby, corruptible, crackable, crisp, crispy, crumbly, crump, crushable, dainty, deciduous, delicate, delicately weak, desiccated, dried-up, dying, effeminate, emaciated, ephemeral, evanescent, fading, fickle, fissile, fleeting,

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