Frangible

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Frangible \Fran"gi*ble\, a. [Cf. F. frangible.]
     Capable of being broken; brittle; fragile; easily broken.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  frangible
       adj : capable of being broken; "the museum stored all frangible
             articles in locked showcases"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  45 Moby Thesaurus words for "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