brickle

An obsolete adjective meaning brittle or easily broken.

• 🇫🇷Adjectif vieilli ou dialectal signifiant fragile, qui se casse facilement ou qui est de peu de solidité.

1. Brittle or easily broken C2 informal british

   Having little elasticity; hence easily cracked, fractured, or snapped.

   • The old, dry wood was brickle and snapped under pressure.
   • Her patience was brickle after a long day of delays.
   • The brickle ice on the pond cracked with a loud sound.

   🇫🇷cassant, fragile

   Synonymes: breakablebrittlecrispcrumblyfragilefrangible

   Antonymes: durableflexibletough