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Ductile vs. Brittle — What's the Difference?

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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