brittle has definitions from the field of food
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[ adjective ] having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped

Synonyms

brickly brickle

Examples

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

Used in print

(Helen Hooven Santmyer, "There Were Fences"...)

I have no picture in my mind of the garden as_a_whole - that I could not see - but certain aspects of certain corners linger in the memory : wind-blown , frost-bitten , white chrysanthemums beneath a window , with their brittle brown leaves and their sharp scent of November ; ripe pears lying in long grass , to be turned_over by a dusty slippered foot , cautiously , lest bees still worked in the ragged , brown edged holes ; hot colored verbenas in the corner between the dining-room wall and the side porch , where we passed on_our_way to the pump with the half gourd tied to it as a cup by my grandmother for our childish pleasure in drinking from it .

Related terms

breakable

2
[ adjective ] lacking warmth and generosity of spirit

Examples

"a brittle and calculating woman"

Related terms

coldhearted

3
[ adjective ] (of metal or glass) not annealed and consequently easily cracked or fractured

Synonyms

unannealed

Related terms

untempered

4
[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 27934
5
[ noun ] (food) caramelized sugar cooled in thin sheets

Synonyms

toffee toffy

Related terms

candy peanut_brittle

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