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francophobe |
francophone |
francophonic |
frangent |
frangibility |
frangible
| frangibleness
| frangipane
| frangipani
| frangipanni
| frangulic
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frangible
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective frangible has 1 sense
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, womanishROGET 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.
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