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work-brittle

work-brittle adjective: industrious; diligent.

Adjective

work-brittle (comparative more work-brittle, superlative most work-brittle)

  1. (dialectal, obsolete) Industrious; diligent.

Forms of work-brittle

comparativemore work-brittle
superlativemost work-brittle

Questions about work-brittle

What does work-brittle mean?
Work-brittle means industrious; diligent.
What part of speech is work-brittle?
Work-brittle is an adjective.

Words near work-brittle in the dictionary

  1. work-alike
  2. work-around
  3. work-arounds
  4. work-athon
  5. work-athons
  6. work-brittle
  7. work-camp
  8. work-harden
  9. work-hardened
  10. work-in
  11. work-in-process

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