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brittle
adjective
- easily broken or shattered because hard and inflexible
- having a sharp, hard quality: brittle tones
- stiff and unbending in manner; lacking warmth
noun
a brittle, crunchy candy with nuts in it: peanut brittle
Related Forms:
- brittlely adverb or brittly
- brittleness noun
See brittle in American Heritage Dictionary 4
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