English to English
adjective
- Easily broken; apt to break; fragile; not tough or tenacious.
source: Webster 1913
noun
- caramelized sugar cooled in thin sheets
source: WordNet 3.0
adjective satellite
- having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped
Brittle bones.
Glass is brittle.
`brickle' and `brickly' are dialectal.
source: WordNet 3.0
- lacking warmth and generosity of spirit
A brittle and calculating woman.
source: WordNet 3.0
- (of metal or glass) not annealed and consequently easily cracked or fractured
source: WordNet 3.0
English to Tagalog
adj
- [brítl] Babasagín; marupok; mahunâ; mahinà
source: Diccionario Ingles-Español-Tagalog
