Meaning of FRAGILE
| Pronunciation: | | 'frajul
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- [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"
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| | Synonyms: | | breakable, delicate, flimsy, frail, weak |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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| Computing Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | brittle |
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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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