Ductile vs. Brittle — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Ductile and Brittle
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Ductile
Easily drawn into wire or hammered thin
Ductile metals.
Brittle
Likely to break, snap, or crack, as when subjected to pressure
Brittle bones.
Ductile
Easily molded or shaped.
Brittle
Easily damaged or disrupted; fragile
A brittle friendship.
Ductile
Capable of being readily persuaded or influenced; tractable
A ductile young mind.
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Brittle
Difficult to deal with; snappish
A brittle disposition.
Ductile
Capable of being pulled or stretched into thin wire by mechanical force without breaking.
Brittle
Lacking warmth of feeling; cold
A reputation for being brittle and aloof.
Ductile
Molded easily into a new form.
Brittle
Brilliantly sharp, as in percussive sound.
Ductile
(rare) Led easily; prone to follow.
Brittle
Perishable.
Ductile
Easily led; tractable; complying; yielding to motives, persuasion, or instruction; as, a ductile people.
Forms their ductile mindsTo human virtues.
Brittle
Fleeting; transitory.
Ductile
Capable of being elongated or drawn out, as into wire or threads.
Gold . . . is the softest and most ductile of all metals.
Brittle
A confection of caramelized sugar to which nuts are added
Walnut brittle.
Ductile
Easily influenced
Brittle
Inflexible; liable to break, snap, or shatter easily under stress, pressure, or impact.
Cast iron is much more brittle than forged iron.
A diamond is hard but brittle.
Ductile
Capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out;
Ductile copper
Malleable metals such as gold
They soaked the leather to made it pliable
Pliant molten glass
Made of highly tensile steel alloy
Brittle
Not physically tough or tenacious; apt to break or crumble when bending.
Shortbread is my favorite cold pastry, yet being so brittle it crumbles easily, and a lot goes to waste.
Brittle
(archaeology) Said of rocks and minerals with a conchoidal fracture; capable of being knapped or flaked.
Brittle
Emotionally fragile, easily offended.
What a brittle personality! A little misunderstanding and he's an emotional wreck.
Brittle
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.
Brittle
Diabetes that is characterized by dramatic swings in blood sugar level.
Brittle
A confection of caramelized sugar and nuts.
As a child, my favorite candy was peanut brittle.
Brittle
(by extension) Anything resembling this confection, such as flapjack, a cereal bar, etc.
Brittle
(intransitive) To become brittle.
Brittle
Easily broken; apt to break; fragile; not tough or tenacious.
Farewell, thou pretty, brittle pieceOf fine-cut crystal.
Brittle
Caramelized sugar cooled in thin sheets
Brittle
Having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped;
Brittle bones
Glass is brittle
`brickle' and `brickly' are dialectal
Brittle
Lacking warmth and generosity of spirit;
A brittle and calculating woman
Brittle
(of metal or glass) not annealed and consequently easily cracked or fractured
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