Fragile

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Easily broken, damaged, or destroyed; frail.
  • adj. Lacking physical or emotional strength; delicate.
  • adj. Lacking substance; tenuous or flimsy: a fragile claim to fame.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Easily broken or destroyed, and thus often of subtle or intricate structure.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Easily broken; brittle; frail; delicate; easily destroyed.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Easily broken; brittle; hence, offering weak resistance to any destroying force; weak; easily destroyed; liable to fail.
  • Synonyms Fragile, Frail; weak, infirm, slight, delicate. Fragile is nearly always restricted to the physical; frail applies to the physical, but has also been extended to the moral.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. easily broken or damaged or destroyed
  • adj. vulnerably delicate
  • adj. lacking substance or significance
  • Equivalent
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    slight    weak    brittle    frail    frangible    infirm    delicate    friable   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    agile   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    frail    delicate    slender    vulnerable    precious    transparent    weak    sensitive    brittle