About The Word Fragile
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Fragile
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What's The Definition Of Fragile?
[adj] vulnerably delicate; "she has the fragile beauty of youth"
[adj] easily broken or damaged or destroyed; "a kite too delicate to fly safely"; "fragile porcelain plates"; "fragile old bones"; "a frail craft" [adj] lacking solidity or strength; "a flimsy table"; "flimsy construction"; "a fragile link with the past" Synonyms | Synonyms for Fragile: breakable | delicate | flimsy | frail | weak Related Terms | Find terms related to Fragile: breakable | brittle | brittle as glass | capricious | changeable | cheap-jack | cobwebby | corruptible | crackable | crisp | crispy | crumbly | crushable | dainty | deciduous | decrepit | delicate | delicately weak | dying | effeminate | ephemeral | evanescent | fading | feeble | fickle | fissile | fleeting | flimsy | flitting | fly-by-night | flying | fracturable | frail | frangible | friable | fugacious | fugitive | gimcrack | gimcracky | gossamery | impermanent | impetuous | impulsive | inconstant | infirm | insubstantial | jerry | jerry-built | lacerable | light | lightweight | momentary | mortal | mutable | namby-pamby | nondurable | nonpermanent | papery | passing | pasteboardy | perishable | puny | rickety | scissile | shaky | shatterable | shattery | shivery | short | short-lived | sissified | sleazy | slight | splintery | tacky | temporal | temporary | tenuous | thin | transient | transitive | transitory | undurable | unenduring | unsound | unstable | unsubstantial | volatile | vulnerable | weak | weakly | wispy | womanish See Also | Fragile In Webster's Dictionary \Frag"ile\, a. [L. fragilis, from frangere to break; cf.
F. fragile. See {Break}, v. t., and cf. {Frail}, a.]
Easily broken; brittle; frail; delicate; easily destroyed.
The state of ivy is tough, and not fragile. --Bacon.
Syn: Brittle; infirm; weak; frail; frangible; slight. --
{Frag"ile*ly}, adv.
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