Brittle
21brittle — adj. Brittle is used with these nouns: ↑bone, ↑nail, ↑stem …
22brittle — Synonyms and related words: 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 …
23brittle — [14] Brittle probably comes from a Germanic stem *brut ‘break’, which had several descendants in Old English (including the verbs brēotan and gebryttan ‘break’) that did not survive the Norman Conquest. It came in a more than usual profusion of… …
24brittle — adjective 1》 hard but liable to break easily. 2》 (of a voice) unpleasantly hard and sharp and showing signs of nervousness or instability. noun a brittle sweet made from nuts and set melted sugar. Derivatives brittlely (or brittly) adverb… …
25brittle — /ˈbrɪtl / (say britl) adjective 1. breaking readily with a comparatively smooth fracture, as glass. 2. tense; irritable. 3. strained; insincere. –noun 4. a sweet made with treacle and nuts: peanut brittle. {Middle English britel, from Old English …
26brittle — [14] Brittle probably comes from a Germanic stem *brut ‘break’, which had several descendants in Old English (including the verbs brēotan and gebryttan ‘break’) that did not survive the Norman Conquest. It came in a more than usual profusion of… …
27Brittle star — Temporal range: 488.2–0 Ma …
28Brittle Power — Brittle Power: Energy Strategy for National Security is a 1982 book by Amory B. Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins, prepared originally as a Pentagon study, and re released in 2001 following the September 11 attacks. The book argues that domestic energy …
29Brittle silver ore — Brittle Brit tle, a. [OE. britel, brutel, AS. bryttian to dispense, fr. bre[ o]tan to break; akin to Icel. brytja, Sw. bryta, Dan. bryde. Cf. {Brickle}.] Easily broken; apt to break; fragile; not tough or tenacious. [1913 Webster] Farewell, thou… …
30brittle bone disease — or brittle bones noun 1. An inherited disease, osteogenesis imperfecta, characterized by abnormal fragility of the bones 2. Osteoporosis (non standard) • • • Main Entry: ↑brittle …
