Brittle
adjective
Breaks or cracks easily, not strong.
The old, brittle piece of wood broke when I tried to pick it up.
Often appears as...
- brittle bones
- brittle nails
adjective
Difficulty in dealing with situations or people, emotional weakness.
Her brittle self-esteem shattered after the harsh criticism
Often appears as...
- brittle ego
- brittle self-esteem
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Disapproving
adjective
Food that has been cooked or dried so it easily breaks and crunches.
She made a delicious peanut brittle for dessert.
Often appears as...
- peanut brittle
- almond brittle
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Culinary
adjective
Breaks or cracks easily, not strong.
The old, brittle piece of wood broke when I tried to pick it up.
Often appears as...
- brittle bones
- brittle nails
adjective
Difficulty in dealing with situations or people, emotional weakness.
Her brittle self-esteem shattered after the harsh criticism
Often appears as...
- brittle ego
- brittle self-esteem
Usage tips
Disapproving
adjective
Food that has been cooked or dried so it easily breaks and crunches.
She made a delicious peanut brittle for dessert.
Often appears as...
- peanut brittle
- almond brittle
Usage tips
Culinary
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Weakness
Used to describe objects that can break due to lack of strength or structural integrity.
The brittle branches snapped in the storm.
Pro Tip 2/3Age Deterioration
Implies that an object may become brittle over time due to aging or wear.
The brittle pages of the ancient book crumbled to touch.
Pro Tip 3/3Careful Handling
Suggests extra caution should be used when dealing with brittle items to prevent damage.
Handle the brittle crystal vase with care.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Weakness
Used to describe objects that can break due to lack of strength or structural integrity.
The brittle branches snapped in the storm.
Pro Tip 2/3Age Deterioration
Implies that an object may become brittle over time due to aging or wear.
The brittle pages of the ancient book crumbled to touch.
Pro Tip 3/3Careful Handling
Suggests extra caution should be used when dealing with brittle items to prevent damage.
Handle the brittle crystal vase with care.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Weakness
Used to describe objects that can break due to lack of strength or structural integrity.
The brittle branches snapped in the storm.
Pro Tip 2/3Age Deterioration
Implies that an object may become brittle over time due to aging or wear.
The brittle pages of the ancient book crumbled to touch.
Pro Tip 3/3Careful Handling
Suggests extra caution should be used when dealing with brittle items to prevent damage.
Handle the brittle crystal vase with care.
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How to grow a bone -...
An artificial bone needs to experience real stress, or else it will come out weak and brittle, so the bioreactor constantly pumps fluids around the bone, and the pressure tells the osteoblasts to add bone density. Put all of this together, and within three weeks, the now living bone is ready to come out of the bioreactor
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Safari Live - Day 166 PIPE...
like to wander off on their own and only rarely rejoin the herd when this testosterone starts pumping through their blood it can however be very stressful for the herd actually you say he's got very nice big tusks I agree with you they're very very thick tusks it seems like the might be a but brittle
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Kwabena Boahen: Making a...
that can actually recover the missing information. It makes the brain inherently robust. What you have here is a system where you store data locally. And it's brittle, because each of these steps has to be flawless, otherwise you lose that data, whereas in the brain, you have a system
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How to Raise Successful...
And our kids, regardless of where they end up at the end of high school, they're breathless. They're brittle. They're a little burned out. They're a little old before their time, wishing the grown-ups in their lives had said, "What you've done is enough,
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Christian Catacomb...
geologists on the team collects a sample if chrysanthus and daria were buried in these catacombs the soil from these walls should match that found in the skulls the expedition winds its way yet deeper some four storeys into the brittle earth
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Will automation take...
increases the value of improving any of the other links. Concretely, if most of the links are brittle and prone to breakage, the fact that your link is not that reliable is not that important. Probably something else will break anyway.
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Terry Hunt and Carl...
deep-sea fishing why didn't they well the option seems to be taken was taken from them though the island had a dense forest it was comprised of palm trees with thin brittle bark and soft fibrous interiors making them really useless for
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The new American Dream PIPE...
I am a tribute to her if I live a life as connected and courageous as possible. In the midst of such widespread uncertainty, we may, in fact, be insecure. But we can let that insecurity make us brittle
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Glacier Power PIPE National...
ice has builders than carved the world we know on a colossal scale what is it that gives something as brittle as ice supremacy or the hardest and most
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Army of Sea Urchins? PIPE...
predator here is a giant the sunflower starfish is a metre across with an appetite for brittle stars
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How to grow a bone -...
An artificial bone needs to experience real stress, or else it will come out weak and brittle, so the bioreactor constantly pumps fluids around the bone, and the pressure tells the osteoblasts to add bone density. Put all of this together, and within three weeks, the now living bone is ready to come out of the bioreactor
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 166 PIPE...
like to wander off on their own and only rarely rejoin the herd when this testosterone starts pumping through their blood it can however be very stressful for the herd actually you say he's got very nice big tusks I agree with you they're very very thick tusks it seems like the might be a but brittle
Video examples
Kwabena Boahen: Making a...
that can actually recover the missing information. It makes the brain inherently robust. What you have here is a system where you store data locally. And it's brittle, because each of these steps has to be flawless, otherwise you lose that data, whereas in the brain, you have a system
Video examples
How to Raise Successful...
And our kids, regardless of where they end up at the end of high school, they're breathless. They're brittle. They're a little burned out. They're a little old before their time, wishing the grown-ups in their lives had said, "What you've done is enough,
Video examples
Christian Catacomb...
geologists on the team collects a sample if chrysanthus and daria were buried in these catacombs the soil from these walls should match that found in the skulls the expedition winds its way yet deeper some four storeys into the brittle earth
Video examples
Will automation take...
increases the value of improving any of the other links. Concretely, if most of the links are brittle and prone to breakage, the fact that your link is not that reliable is not that important. Probably something else will break anyway.
Video examples
Terry Hunt and Carl...
deep-sea fishing why didn't they well the option seems to be taken was taken from them though the island had a dense forest it was comprised of palm trees with thin brittle bark and soft fibrous interiors making them really useless for
Video examples
The new American Dream PIPE...
I am a tribute to her if I live a life as connected and courageous as possible. In the midst of such widespread uncertainty, we may, in fact, be insecure. But we can let that insecurity make us brittle
Video examples
Glacier Power PIPE National...
ice has builders than carved the world we know on a colossal scale what is it that gives something as brittle as ice supremacy or the hardest and most
Video examples
Army of Sea Urchins? PIPE...
predator here is a giant the sunflower starfish is a metre across with an appetite for brittle stars
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Molly Antopol
American Writer
I love being in the archives, traveling, sitting in dusty places and looking at books with brittle pages. I love reading biographies and researching, to make myself informed about whatever political or historical time I'm writing about. From there, a lot of the emotional truths about my characters emerge.
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Peter Zumthor
Swiss Architect
I am convinced that a good building must be capable of absorbing the traces of human life and taking on a specific richness... I think of the patina of age on materials, of innumerable small scratches on surfaces, of varnish that has grown dull and brittle, and of edges polished by use.
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Anne Enright
Irish Author
Recently I read the stories I wrote in my early 20s, to put in a volume. And here is this brittle young woman, writing about marriage as, not the worst thing, but the most boring thing that could happen to a person. Now I think I was wrong. I like to be proven wrong.
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Tom Stoppard
English Dramatist
I like dialogue that is slightly more brittle than life. I have always admired and wished to write one of those 1940s film scripts where every line is written with a sharpness and economy that is frankly artificial.
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Paul Bremer
American Statesman
Saddam spent 35 years stealing and wasting money, and all of these systems are very fragile and brittle, and you try to fix one thing and something else gets in trouble.
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Peter Stormare
Swedish Actor
How brittle life is, yet it's been going on for thousands and thousands of years. Maybe we should sit down and pay tribute to life instead of just destruction.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
American President
From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.
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Vicky Kaushal
Indian Actor
I realise that film industry is a brittle and fragile world, but I'm ready to face it all because I'm too much in love with this space.
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Stanley A. McChrystal
American Footballer
We need a strong civil society where the connection between different people and groups is firm and vibrant, not brittle and divided.
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John Burdett
British Novelist
Las Vegas is the expression, in glitter and concrete, of America's brittle and mutating id.
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Molly Antopol
American Writer
I love being in the archives, traveling, sitting in dusty places and looking at books with brittle pages. I love reading biographies and researching, to make myself informed about whatever political or historical time I'm writing about. From there, a lot of the emotional truths about my characters emerge.
Quote examples
Peter Zumthor
Swiss Architect
I am convinced that a good building must be capable of absorbing the traces of human life and taking on a specific richness... I think of the patina of age on materials, of innumerable small scratches on surfaces, of varnish that has grown dull and brittle, and of edges polished by use.
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Anne Enright
Irish Author
Recently I read the stories I wrote in my early 20s, to put in a volume. And here is this brittle young woman, writing about marriage as, not the worst thing, but the most boring thing that could happen to a person. Now I think I was wrong. I like to be proven wrong.
Quote examples
Tom Stoppard
English Dramatist
I like dialogue that is slightly more brittle than life. I have always admired and wished to write one of those 1940s film scripts where every line is written with a sharpness and economy that is frankly artificial.
Quote examples
Paul Bremer
American Statesman
Saddam spent 35 years stealing and wasting money, and all of these systems are very fragile and brittle, and you try to fix one thing and something else gets in trouble.
Quote examples
Peter Stormare
Swedish Actor
How brittle life is, yet it's been going on for thousands and thousands of years. Maybe we should sit down and pay tribute to life instead of just destruction.
Quote examples
Dwight D. Eisenhower
American President
From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.
Quote examples
Vicky Kaushal
Indian Actor
I realise that film industry is a brittle and fragile world, but I'm ready to face it all because I'm too much in love with this space.
Quote examples
Stanley A. McChrystal
American Footballer
We need a strong civil society where the connection between different people and groups is firm and vibrant, not brittle and divided.
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John Burdett
British Novelist
Las Vegas is the expression, in glitter and concrete, of America's brittle and mutating id.
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