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| type | s |
| lex_filenum | 00 |
| def | having little elasticity |
| def | hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped |
| examples | brittle bones glass is brittle `brickle' and `brickly' are dialectal |
| Outgoing links | |
| Similar to | breakable |
| Derivationally related form | brittle → brittleness |
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| Similar to | breakable |
| Derivationally related form | brittleness → brittle |
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