brittle

Значение (Английский)

Adj

1. Inflexible; liable to break, snap, or shatter easily under stress, pressure, or impact.
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.
5. 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.
6. (informal) Diabetes that is characterized by dramatic swings in blood sugar level.

Noun

1. A confection of caramelized sugar and nuts.
2. Anything resembling this confection, such as flapjack, a cereal bar, etc.

Verb

1. To become brittle.
2. (obsolete) To gut.

Синонимы

fragile

crisp

breakable

crunchy

frail

delicate

friable

easily broken

crumbly

frangible

crispy

weak

toffee

toffy

dry

sensitive

flimsy

infirm

unannealed

light

feeble

brickle

brickly

slight

crimp

soft

stone

🪨

taffy

tender

tender-hearted

threadbare

twisted

unemotional

unfeeling

well done

wintry

apt to break

be broken

shattery

easily cracked

be sprained

be brittle

be fragile

easily damaged

cold-eyed

non-coherent

lacking cohesion

non-cohesive

bleak

britlle

caramel

chilly

coarse

cracking

crackling

dead

💀

eggshell

emotionless

ethereal

firm

fragility

frosty

heartless

impassive

indurate

insensate

insensitive

mellow

perishable

raw

rickety

rough

short

short-lived

Произносится как (IPA)

/ˈbɹɪtl̩/

Этимология (Английский)

From Middle English britel, brutel, brotel (“brittle”), from Old English *brytel, *bryttol (“brittle, fragile”, literally “prone to or tending to break”); equivalent to brit + -le.