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brittle 音標拼音: [br'ɪtəl] a. 易碎的,脆弱的,易壞的 易碎的,脆弱的,易壞的 brittle adj 1: having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped; " brittle bones"; " glass is brittle"; "` brickle' and ` brickly' are dialectal" [ synonym: { brittle}, { brickle}, { brickly}] 2: lacking warmth and generosity of spirit; " a brittle and calculating woman" 3: ( of metal or glass) not annealed and consequently easily cracked or fractured [ synonym: { brittle}, { unannealed}] n 1: caramelized sugar cooled in thin sheets [ synonym: { brittle}, { toffee}, { toffy}] 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 pretty, brittle piece Of fine- cut crystal. -- Cotton. [ 1913 Webster] { Brittle silver ore}, the mineral { stephanite}. [ 1913 Webster] 99 Moby Thesaurus words for " brittle": 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, dying, effeminate, emaciated, ephemeral, evanescent, fading, fickle, fissile, fleeting, flimsy, flitting, fly- by- night, flying, fracturable, fragile, frail, frangible, friable, fugacious, fugitive, gimcrack, gimcracky, gossamery, impermanent, impetuous, impulsive, inconstant, insecure, insubstantial, jerry, jerry- built, lacerable, light, lightweight, momentary, mortal, mutable, namby- pamby, nondurable, nonpermanent, papery, parchmenty, passing, pasteboardy, perishable, puny, scissile, sensitive, sere, shatterable, shattery, shivery, short- lived, shriveled, shrunken, sissified, sleazy, slight, splintery, tacky, temporal, temporary, transient, transitive, transitory, undurable, unenduring, unstable, unsubstantial, volatile, vulnerable, wasted, weak, wilted, wispy, withered, wizened, womanish, wrinkled |
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