brittle

1. 1.

   caramelized sugar cooled in thin sheets

   Synonymstoffeetoffy

   Broadercandy

   Narrowerpeanut brittle

Other forms of brittle

plural

brittles·

comparative

brittler·

superlative

brittlest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about brittle

What does brittle mean?

brittle means "having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in brittle?

brittle has 2 syllables: brit-tle. The stress falls on "brit". In IPA it is /ˈbɹɪtəl/.

What is another word for brittle?

Close synonyms include brickle, brickly, unannealed, toffee, toffy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is brittle a common word?

brittle is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.