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Haettu sana löytyi näillä lähdekielillä:
| Kieli | Käännökset |
|---|
| bulgaria | крехък, чуплив, трошлив, чувствителен, обидчив |
| espanja | quebradizo, friable, crocante, frágil |
| hollanti | bros, breekbaar, broos |
| italia | fragile |
| latina | fragilis, fragōsus |
| norja | sprø |
| portugali | frágil, quebradiço, quebradiça |
| puola | kruchy |
| ranska | croquant, fragile, cassant, friable |
| ruotsi | skör, spröd |
| saksa | Krokant, brüchig, bröckelig, mürbe, morsch, spröde, kühl, reizbar |
| suomi | hauras, krokantti, hapero, herkkä, herkkätunteinen, hapera, mureneva |
| tanska | skøre |
| tšekki | křehký, lámavý, přecitlivělý, citlivý |
| unkari | grillázs, sprőd |
| venäjä | ломкий (lomki), хрупкий (hrupki), чувствительный (tšuvstvitelnyi), уязвимый (ujazvimyi), беззащитный (bezzaštšitnyi), обидчивый (obidtšivyi) |
Määritelmät
Adjektiivi
- Inflexible; liable to break, snap, or shatter easily under stress, pressure, or impact; crackly.
- Not physically tough or tenacious; apt to break or crumble when bending.
- (archaeology, of rocks, minerals, etc) Tending to fracture in a conchoidal way; capable of being knapped or flaked.
- Emotionally fragile, easily offended.
- (engineering, computing, of a system) Poorly error- or fault-tolerant; having little in the way of redundancy or defense in depth; susceptible to catastrophic failure in the event of a relatively-minor malfunction or deviance.
- (informal, proscribed, of diabetes) Characterized by dramatic swings in blood sugar level.
Substantiivi
- A confection of caramelized sugar and nuts.
- (by extension) Anything resembling this confection, such as flapjack, a cereal bar, etc.
Verbi
- (intransitive) To become brittle.
- (transitive, obsolete) To gut.
Esimerkit
- Cast iron is much more brittle than forged iron.
- A diamond is hard but brittle.
- 'Do you suppose our convent, and I too, / Are insufficient, then, to pray for you? / Thomas, that joke's not good. Your faith is brittle.
- Shortbread is my favorite cold pastry, yet being so brittle it crumbles easily, and a lot goes to waste.
- What a brittle personality! A little misunderstanding and he's an emotional wreck.
- As a child, my favorite candy was peanut brittle.
- Doris had explained many of the events of the preceding three years with a forthright if brittle voice, and throughout he’d held her hand to lend support, both physical and moral.
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