ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Breakly

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Breakly is an adjective meaning Apt to, capable of, or tending to break; fragile; brittle.

Meaning

Apt to, capable of, or tending to break; fragile; brittle.

More Meanings

  1. In a breakly manner.

Example Sentences

Surface longitudinal breakly furrowed, slight lustrous, orange-brown.
Daylight was breakly dimly through wild-looking clouds upon a world of tumultuous waters.
Our ash is not tough and hard like that, but has an open grain, and is among the most brash or breakly of our timbers.
"I never thought I 'd say what I 'm going to," she said at last; "it seems indecent; but I can't have you sitting around this way, acting as if I was a piece of cracked chiny that you'd got to handle mighty gingerly or it would drop all to pieces. I ain't so breakly. [...]"

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include frangible, breakable, infractible, fracturable, crackable, brittle.

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