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Roget's Thesaurus

Brittleness

Nouns
  • brittleness etc. adj.
  • fragility, friability, frangibility, fissibility
  • house of cards, house of glass.
Verbs
  • be brittle etc. adj.
  • live in a glass house. break, crack, snap, split, shiver, splinter, crumble, break short, burst, fly, give way
  • fall to pieces
  • crumble to, crumble into dust.
Adjectives
  • brittle, brash [U.S.], breakable, weak, frangible, fragile, frail, gimcrack, shivery, fissile
  • splitting etc. v.
  • lacerable, splintery, crisp, crimp, short, brittle as glass.