brittle

brittle is a 7-letter English word with 5 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Easily broken; apt to break; fragile; not tough or tenacious. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 11 · 5 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Easily broken; apt to break; fragile; not tough or tenacious.
2. noun. caramelized sugar cooled in thin sheets

   Synonyms: toffee, toffy

3. adjective. having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped

   "brittle bones"

   "glass is brittle"

   Synonyms: brickle, brickly

4. adjective. (of metal or glass) not annealed and consequently easily cracked or fractured

   Synonyms: unannealed

5. adjective. lacking warmth and generosity of spirit

   "a brittle and calculating woman"

Synonyms

toffee, toffy, brickle, brickly, unannealed

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in brittle:

blitter, triblet

Common word forms

brittled, brittler, brittles, brittlely, brittlest, brittling, brittleness

Words from these letters

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