Qualities
Synonyms for brittle
The synonym for brittle recorded in this bank is brickle, in the sense "having little elasticity". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for brittle
- brickleadjective, in the sense "having little elasticity"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and brittle carries one sense so far.
having little elasticity
Glass is brittle.
The true synonym
brickle
Same sentence, swapped: Glass is brickle.
Close but different
Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.
- withered
- fickle
- puny
Where brittle turns up in the game
brittle is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in three other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where brittle is the trap
- suppleadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is limber, in the sense "bending and moving easily and gracefully, flexible", with brittle sitting one tile away.
- dampadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is dank, in the sense "unpleasantly moist and often cold", and brittle is on the board beside it.
- ductileadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is malleable, in the sense "of a metal, able to be drawn out into a thin wire without breaking", and brittle is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play brittle
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so brittle reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other qualities words at High Camp, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
The same bank, read from both sides
brittle is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 3. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.