Friable vs Intractable - What's the difference?
friable | intractable |
Easily broken into small fragments, crumbled, or reduced to powder.
* 1977 , (Angela Carter), The Passion of New Eve :
* 1983 , (Lawrence Durrell), Sebastian'', Faber & Faber 2004 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 1020:
(of soil) Loose and large-grained in consistency.
(of poisons) Likely to crumble and become airborne, thus becoming a health risk
Not tractable or to be drawn or guided by persuasion; not easily governed, managed, or directed; uncontrollable; incurable; violent; stubborn; obstinate.
As adjectives the difference between friable and intractable
is that friable is easily broken into small fragments, crumbled, or reduced to powder while intractable is not tractable or to be drawn or guided by persuasion; not easily governed, managed, or directed; uncontrollable; incurable; violent; stubborn; obstinate.friable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Spiders had woven their vague trapezes between the friable heads of dead peonies in enormous glass jars streaked with tide marks where the water had evaporated long ago.
- This light, friable type of material offered excellent insulation against both desert heat and also the cold of darkness during the winter.
- April 1987 , Old-House Journal
- It is when asbestos-containing products are friable that hazardous asbestos fibers are likely to be released and sent airborne.