Word "BRITTLE" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
caramelized sugar cooled in thin sheets
Synonyms:
toffee, toffy

Part of Speech:
Adjective
Definition:
having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped
Synonyms:
brickle, brickly
Examples:
brittle bones
glass is brittle

Part of Speech:
Adjective
Definition:
(of metal or glass) not annealed and consequently easily cracked or fractured
Synonyms:
unannealed

Crossword Clues for BRITTLE

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Hard but fragile (7)
Easy to shatter Commuter 16 Feb 2024
Easily going broke?
A kind of toffee made with caramelised sugar and nuts (7)
Fragile The Guardian Quick 21 Oct 2023
French cheese sandwiches dry, large and fragile The Telegraph Cryptic 01 Sep 2023
Edgy UK native extremely tense crossing lake The Times Cryptic 26 Oct 2022
Peanut candy Eugene Sheffer 21 Oct 2022
Easily broken Thomas Joseph 12 Sep 2022
Easily broken Thomas Joseph 20 Jan 2022
UK native heard the French can be sensitive
Easily broken The Telegraph Quick 02 May 2021
Fragile The Sun Two Speed 08 Sep 2020
Liable to snap as libretto mostly rewritten The Sun Two Speed 08 Sep 2020
Easily snapped Universal 16 May 2020
Sensitive insular person talked oddly The Telegraph Toughie 06 Dec 2019
Easily cracked or snapped Irish Times Simplex 01 Jun 2018
Frail UK citizen is going to broadcast
Easily broken Thomas Joseph 30 Nov 2017
Easily snapped USA Today 10 Jul 2017
Easily broken, as glass
Hard but easily broken Premier Sunday 19 Feb 2017
Easily broken Scot, for example, let off The Telegraph Cryptic 18 Jan 2017
Easily snapped
Easily snapped
Hard but easily broken The Times Concise 10 Mar 2016
Peanut candy Eugene Sheffer 14 Jan 2016
Unstable litter bin not popular for building The Telegraph Toughie 25 Jun 2015
Peanut candy
Peanutty candy
Easily snapped, as bones
Easily snapped
Like objects dipped in liquid nitrogen
Easily broken
Easily broken
Likely to crack
Apt to crack
Likely to crack
Peanut candy
Nutty confection
Easily fractured
Frangible
Crisp candy.
Peanut ___.
Crisp, breakable candy.
Crisp candy, with peanuts.
Easy to break.
Candy, usually with peanuts.
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