All brittle synonyms

adj brittle

• fragile — brittle
• breakable — Breakable objects are easy to break by accident.
• crisp — Food that is crisp is pleasantly hard, or has a pleasantly hard surface.
• frail — having delicate health; not robust; weak: My grandfather is rather frail now.
• short — having little length; not long.
• stiff — rigid or firm; difficult or impossible to bend or flex: a stiff collar.
• crumbling — to break into small fragments or crumbs.
• crumbly — Something that is crumbly is easily broken into a lot of little pieces.
• delicate — Something that is delicate is small and beautifully shaped.
• friable — easily crumbled or reduced to powder; crumbly: friable rock.
• inelastic — not elastic; lacking flexibility or resilience; unyielding.
• vitreous — of the nature of or resembling glass, as in transparency, brittleness, hardness, glossiness, etc.: vitreous china.
• weak — not strong; liable to yield, break, or collapse under pressure or strain; fragile; frail: a weak fortress; a weak spot in armor.
• frangible — easily broken; breakable: Most frangible toys are not suitable for young children.
• shivery — readily breaking into shivers or fragments; brittle.
• curt — If you describe someone as curt, you mean that they speak or reply in a brief and rather rude way.
• edgy — nervously irritable; impatient and anxious.
• irritable — easily irritated or annoyed; readily excited to impatience or anger.
• nervous — highly excitable; unnaturally or acutely uneasy or apprehensive: to become nervous under stress.
• prim — formally precise or proper, as persons or behavior; stiffly neat.
• stilted — stiffly dignified or formal, as speech or literary style; pompous.