Roget's Thesaurus

#328. Brittleness

Nouns

brittleness etc. adj.; fragility, friability, frangibility, fissibility; house of cards, house of glass.

Verbs

be brittle etc. adj.; live in a glass house. break, crack, snap, split, shiver, splinter, crumble, break short, burst, fly, give way; fall to pieces; crumble to, crumble into dust.

Adjectives

brittle, brash [U.S.], breakable, weak, frangible, fragile, frail, gimcrack, shivery, fissile; splitting etc. v.; lacerable, splintery, crisp, crimp, short, brittle as glass.