brittle
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Tính từ
adjective- 1.
Inflexible; liable to break, snap, or shatter easily under stress, pressure, or impact.
Near-synonym: crackly
Cast iron is much more brittle than forged iron.
A diamond is hard but brittle.
Đồng nghĩa: crackly
- 2.
Not physically tough or tenacious; apt to break or crumble when bending.
Shortbread is my favorite cold pastry, yet being so brittle it crumbles easily, and a lot goes to waste.
- 3.
(archaeology, of rocks, minerals, etc) Tending to fracture in a conchoidal way; capable of being knapped or flaked.
- 4.
Emotionally fragile, easily offended.
What a brittle person! A little misunderstanding and he's an emotional wreck.
- 5.
(engineering, computing, of a system) 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, proscribed)(informal, proscribed, of diabetes) Characterized by dramatic swings in blood sugar level.
Danh từ
noun- 1.
(uncountable, usually)A confection of caramelized sugar and nuts.
As a child, my favorite candy was peanut brittle.
Đồng nghĩa: brickle
- 2.
(broadly, uncountable, usually)(by extension) Anything resembling this confection, such as flapjack, a cereal bar, etc.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(intransitive)To become brittle.
Đồng nghĩa: embrittle
- 2.
(obsolete, transitive)To gut.
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From Middle English britel, brutel, brotel (brittle), from Old English *brytel, *bryttol (brittle, fragile); equivalent to brit + -le.