brittle

brittle has 5 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 7.

Definitions

• a.. Easily broken; apt to break; fragile; not tough or tenacious.
• n.. caramelized sugar cooled in thin sheets
• a.. having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped; "brittle bones"; "glass is brittle"; "`brickle' and `brickly' are dialectal"
• a.. (of metal or glass) not annealed and consequently easily cracked or fractured
• a.. lacking warmth and generosity of spirit; "a brittle and calculating woman"