ALL meanings of brittle
brit·tle
B b - adjective brittle An object or substance that is brittle is hard but easily broken. 3
- adjective brittle If you describe a situation, relationship, or someone's mood as brittle, you mean that it is unstable, and may easily change. 3
- graded adjective brittle Someone who is brittle seems rather sharp and insensitive and says things which are likely to hurt other people's feelings. 3
- graded adjective brittle A brittle sound is short, loud, and sharp. 3
- adjective brittle easily cracked, snapped, or broken; fragile 3
- adjective brittle curt or irritable 3
- adjective brittle hard or sharp in quality 3
- noun brittle a crunchy sweet made with treacle and nuts 3
- adjective brittle easily broken or shattered because hard and inflexible 3
- adjective brittle having a sharp, hard quality 3
- adjective brittle stiff and unbending in manner; lacking warmth 3
- noun brittle a brittle, crunchy candy with nuts in it 3
- adjective brittle A brittle material breaks or splits easily. 3
- noun Definition of brittle in Technology (jargon) Said of software that is functional but easily broken by changes in operating environment or configuration, or by any minor tweak to the software itself. Also, any system that responds inappropriately and disastrously to abnormal but expected external stimuli; e.g. a file system that is usually totally scrambled by a power failure is said to be brittle. This term is often used to describe the results of a research effort that were never intended to be robust, but it can be applied to commercially developed software, which displays the quality far more often than it ought to. Opposite of robust. 1
- adjective brittle hard but breaks easily 1
- adjective brittle unstable 1
- adjective brittle voice: sharp, nervous 1
- adjective brittle irritable 1
- noun brittle candy with nuts 1
- adjective brittle having hardness and rigidity but little tensile strength; breaking readily with a comparatively smooth fracture, as glass. 1
- adjective brittle easily damaged or destroyed; fragile; frail: a brittle marriage. 1
- adjective brittle lacking warmth, sensitivity, or compassion; aloof; self-centered: a self-possessed, cool, and rather brittle person. 1
- adjective brittle having a sharp, tense quality: a brittle tone of voice. 1
- adjective brittle unstable or impermanent; evanescent. 1
- noun brittle a confection of melted sugar, usually with nuts, brittle when cooled: peanut brittle. 1
- verb without object brittle to be or become brittle; crumble. 1
- noun brittle (Uncountable Noun) A confection of caramelized sugar and nuts. 0
- noun brittle (Uncountable Noun) Anything resembling this confection, such as flapjack, a cereal bar, etc. 0
- adjective brittle Inflexible, liable to break or snap easily under stress or pressure. 0
- adjective brittle Not physically tough or tenacious; apt to break or crumble when bending. 0
- adjective brittle (archaeology) Said of rocks and minerals with a conchoidal fracture; capable of being knapped or flaked. 0
- adjective brittle Emotionally fragile, easily offended. 0
- adjective brittle (Informal) (proscribed). 0