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brittle    音标拼音: [br'ɪtəl]
a. 易碎的,脆弱的,易坏的

易碎的,脆弱的,易坏的

brittle
adj 1: having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or
fractured or snapped; "brittle bones"; "glass is
brittle"; "`brickle' and `brickly' are dialectal" [synonym:
{brittle}, {brickle}, {brickly}]
2: lacking warmth and generosity of spirit; "a brittle and
calculating woman"
3: (of metal or glass) not annealed and consequently easily
cracked or fractured [synonym: {brittle}, {unannealed}]
n 1: caramelized sugar cooled in thin sheets [synonym: {brittle},
{toffee}, {toffy}]

Brittle \Brit"tle\, a. [OE. britel, brutel, AS. bryttian to
dispense, fr. bre['o]tan to break; akin to Icel. brytja, Sw.
bryta, Dan. bryde. Cf. {Brickle}.]
Easily broken; apt to break; fragile; not tough or tenacious.
[1913 Webster]

Farewell, thou pretty, brittle piece
Of fine-cut crystal. --Cotton.
[1913 Webster]

{Brittle silver ore}, the mineral {stephanite}.
[1913 Webster]

99 Moby Thesaurus words for "brittle":
atrophied, breakable, brittle as glass, capricious, changeable,
cheap-jack, cobwebby, corruptible, crackable, crisp, crispy,
crumbly, crump, crushable, dainty, deciduous, delicate,
delicately weak, desiccated, dried-up, dying, effeminate,
emaciated, ephemeral, evanescent, fading, fickle, fissile,
fleeting, flimsy, flitting, fly-by-night, flying, fracturable,
fragile, frail, frangible, friable, fugacious, fugitive, gimcrack,
gimcracky, gossamery, impermanent, impetuous, impulsive,
inconstant, insecure, insubstantial, jerry, jerry-built, lacerable,
light, lightweight, momentary, mortal, mutable, namby-pamby,
nondurable, nonpermanent, papery, parchmenty, passing, pasteboardy,
perishable, puny, scissile, sensitive, sere, shatterable, shattery,
shivery, short-lived, shriveled, shrunken, sissified, sleazy,
slight, splintery, tacky, temporal, temporary, transient,
transitive, transitory, undurable, unenduring, unstable,
unsubstantial, volatile, vulnerable, wasted, weak, wilted, wispy,
withered, wizened, womanish, wrinkled

Said of {software} that is functional but easily
broken by changes in operating environment or configuration,
or by any minor tweak to the software itself. Also, any
system that responds inappropriately and disastrously to
abnormal but expected external stimuli; e.g. a {file system}
that is usually totally scrambled by a power failure is said
to be brittle. This term is often used to describe the
results of a research effort that were never intended to be
robust, but it can be applied to commercially developed
software, which displays the quality far more often than it
ought to.

Opposite of {robust}.

[{Jargon File}]

(1995-05-09)


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