Robust vs Brittle - What's the difference?
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Evincing strength; indicating vigorous health; strong; sinewy; muscular; vigorous; sound; as, a robust body; robust youth; robust health.
* Anthony Trollope (1815-1882)
Violent; rough; rude.
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Requiring strength or vigor; as, robust employment.
Sensible (of intellect etc.); straightforward, not given to or confused by uncertainty or subtlety;
(systems engineering) Designed or evolved in such a way as to be resistant to total failure despite partial damage.
(software engineering) Resistant or impervious to failure regardless of user input or unexpected conditions.
(statistics) Not greatly influenced by errors in assumptions about the distribution of sample errors.
Inflexible, liable to break or snap easily under stress or pressure.
* 1977 , , Penguin Classics, p. 329:
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.
(archaeology) Said of rocks and minerals with a conchoidal fracture; capable of being knapped or flaked.
Emotionally fragile, easily offended.
(informal, proscribed)
(uncountable) A confection of caramelized sugar and nuts.
(uncountable) Anything resembling this confection, such as flapjack, a cereal bar, etc.
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As adjectives the difference between robust and brittle
is that robust is evincing strength; indicating vigorous health; strong; sinewy; muscular; vigorous; sound; as, a robust body; robust youth; robust health while brittle is inflexible, liable to break or snap easily under stress or pressure.As a noun brittle is
a confection of caramelized sugar and nuts.robust
English
Adjective
(er)- He was a robust man of six feet four.
- She was stronger, larger, more robust physically than he had hitherto conceived.
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Usage notes
* "More" and "most robust" are much more common than the forms ending in "-er" or "-est".Derived terms
* robustnessSee also
* (Robust statistics)Anagrams
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English
(wikipedia brittle)Adjective
(en-adj)- Cast iron is much more brittle than forged iron.
- A diamond is hard but brittle .
- 'Do you suppose our convent, and I too, / Are insufficient, then, to pray for you? / Thomas, that joke's not good. Your faith is brittle .
- What a brittle personality! A little misunderstanding and he's an emotional wreck.
Diabetes Mellitus (DM), Merck manual Diabetes that is characterized by dramatic swings in blood sugar level.
Noun
- As a child, my favorite candy was peanut brittle .