Word Meanings - BRITTLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Easily broken; apt to break; fragile; not tough or tenacious. Farewell, thou pretty, brittle piece Of fine-cut crystal. Cotton. Brittle silver ore, the mineral stephanite. (more info) breótan to break; akin to Icel. brytja, Sw. bryta, Dan. bryde.

Additional info about word: BRITTLE

Easily broken; apt to break; fragile; not tough or tenacious. Farewell, thou pretty, brittle piece Of fine-cut crystal. Cotton. Brittle silver ore, the mineral stephanite. (more info) breótan to break; akin to Icel. brytja, Sw. bryta, Dan. bryde. Cf.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BRITTLE)

• Crimp
• Brittle
• friable
• crisp
• Fragile
• Delicate
• frail
• brittle
• weak
• slight
• frangible
• Glassy
• Vitreous
• smooth
• polished
• glacial
• glabrous
• transparent
• crystalline
• pellucid
• limpid
• glossy
• silken

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of BRITTLE)

• Regard
• respect
• notice
• observe

Related words: (words related to BRITTLE)

• BRITTLELY
  In a brittle manner. Sherwood.
• SMOOTHEN
  To make smooth.
• SLIGHTNESS
  The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard.
• FRAILNESS
  Frailty.
• FRAIL
  A basket made of rushes, used chiefly for containing figs and raisins. 2. The quantity of raisins -- about thirty-two, fifty-six, or seventy-five pounds, -- contained in a frail. 3. A rush for weaving baskets. Johnson.
• SMOOTHNESS
  Quality or state of being smooth.
• TRANSPARENT
  transparere to be transparent; L. trans across, through + parere to 1. Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent
• GLACIALIST
  One who attributes the phenomena of the drift, in geology, to glaciers.
• CRISPER
  One who, or that which, crisps or curls; an instrument for making little curls in the nap of cloth, as in chinchilla.
• SLIGHTEN
  To slight. B. Jonson.
• POLISHMENT
  The act of polishing, or the state of being polished.
• CRIMPER
  One who, or that which, crimps; as: A curved board or frame over which the upper of a boot or shoe is stretched to the required shape. A device for giving hair a wavy apperance. A machine for crimping or ruffling textile fabrics.
• CRIMPY
  Having a crimped appearance; frizzly; as, the crimpy wool of the Saxony sheep.
• CRIMPAGE
  The act or practice of crimping; money paid to a crimp for shipping or enlisting men.
• SLIGHTINGLY
  In a slighting manner.
• FRAILTY
  1. The condition quality of being frail, physically, mentally, or morally, frailness; infirmity; weakness of resolution; liableness to be deceived or seduced. God knows our frailty, pities our weakness. Locke. 2. A fault proceeding from weakness;
• PELLUCIDITY; PELLUCIDNESS
  The quality or state of being pellucid; transparency; translucency; clearness; as, the pellucidity of the air. Locke.
• NOTICE
  1. The act of noting, remarking, or observing; observation by the senses or intellect; cognizance; note. How ready is envy to mingle with the notices we take of other persons ! I. Watts. 2. Intelligence, by whatever means communicated; knowledge
• RESPECTER
  One who respects. A respecter of persons, one who regards or judges with partiality. Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons. Acts x.
• SMOOTH-CHINNED
  Having a smooth chin; beardless. Drayton.
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• DISRESPECTABILITY
  Want of respectability. Thackeray.
• SEMICRYSTALLINE
  Half crystalline; -- said of certain cruptive rocks composed partly of crystalline, partly of amorphous matter.
• TAFFRAIL
  The upper part of a ship's stern, which is flat like a table on the top, and sometimes ornamented with carved work; the rail around a ship's stern.
• MISOBSERVE
  To observe inaccurately; to mistake in observing. Locke.
• REPOLISH
  To polish again.