Synonyms of the word brittle


BRITTLEBREAKABLE - BRICKLE - CANDY - COLDHEARTED - CONFECT - TOFFEE - TOFFY - UNANNEALED - UNHARDENED - UNTEMPERED

brittle

  • adj. Inflexible, liable to break or snap easily under stress or pressure.
  • adj. Not physically tough or tenacious; apt to break or crumble when bending.
  • adj. (archaeology) Said of rocks and minerals with a conchoidal fracture; capable of being knapped or flaked.
  • adj. Emotionally fragile, easily offended.
  • adj. (informal, proscribed) Diabetes that is characterized by dramatic swings in blood sugar level.
  • n. A confection of caramelized sugar and nuts.
  • n. Anything resembling this confection, such as flapjack, a cereal bar, etc.

breakable

  • adj. Able to be broken.
  • adj. Fragile.
  • n. Something that is (easily) breakable.
  • n. (usually in the plural, music) A set of customized hardware that is part of a drum kit. Breakables typically…

brickle

  • adj. (Appalachia or archaic or dialect) Alternative form of breakle.
  • v. (Canada, dialect) To fail spectacularly.

candy

  • n. (uncountable, chiefly Canada, US) Edible, sweet-tasting confectionery containing sugar, or sometimes artificial…
  • n. (countable, chiefly Canada, US) A piece of confectionery of this kind.
  • v. (cooking) To cook in, or coat with, sugar syrup.
  • v. (intransitive) To have sugar crystals form in or on.
  • v. (intransitive) To be formed into candy; to solidify in a candylike form or mass.
  • n. (obsolete) a unit of mass used in southern India, equal to twenty maunds, roughly equal to 500 pounds…

coldhearted

  • adj. Alternative form of cold-hearted.

confect

  • v. To make up, prepare, compound, construct, assemble, form, mix, mingle or put together by combining ingredients…
  • v. (obsolete) To make into a confection; to prepare as a candy, sweetmeat, preserve, or the like.
  • n. (obsolete) A rich, sweet, food item made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts; a confection,…

toffee

  • n. (uncountable) a type of confectionery made by boiling sugar (or treacle, etc) with butter or milk, then…
  • n. (countable) a small, individual piece of toffee.

toffy

  • n. Alternative spelling of toffee.
  • adj. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand, derogatory) Posh, upper-class; snooty.

unannealed

  • adj. Not annealed.

unhardened

  • adj. Not hardened; still soft.

untempered

  • adj. Not tempered; not conditioned by a process.
  • adj. In the case of a person, inexperienced; untested.

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