frangible

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: fran=gi=ble

CIDE DICTIONARY

frangible, a. [Cf. F. frangible.].

 Capable of being broken; brittle; fragile; easily broken.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

frangible, adj. breakable, fragile.

Etymology

OF frangible or med.L frangibilis f. L frangere to break

THESAURUS

frangible

breakable, brittle, brittle as glass, cheap-jack, cobwebby, crackable, crisp, crispy, crumbly, crushable, dainty, delicate, delicately weak, effeminate, fissile, flimsy, fracturable, fragile, frail, friable, gimcrack, gimcracky, gossamery, jerry, jerry-built, lacerable, light, lightweight, namby-pamby, papery, pasteboardy, puny, scissile, shatterable, shattery, shivery, sissified, sleazy, slight, splintery, tacky, unsubstantial, vulnerable, wispy, womanish

ROGET THESAURUS

frangible

Brittleness

N brittleness, fragility, friability, frangibility, fissibility, house of cards, house of glass, brittle, brash, breakable, weak, frangible, fragile, frail, gimcrack, shivery, fissile, splitting, lacerable, splintery, crisp, crimp, short, brittle as glass.