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fragile

adjective

1 fragile

Easily broken or damaged or destroyed:
— Fragile porcelain plates.
— Fragile old bones.

synonyms: delicate, frail.

Roget 160: weak, feeble, debile; impotent etc. 158; relaxed, unnerved, etc. v.; sapless, strengthless, powerless; weakly, ... show more

Roget 328: brittle, brash [U.S.], breakable, weak, frangible, fragile, frail, gimcrack, shivery, fissile; splitting etc. v.; lacerable, ... show more

2 fragile

Vulnerably delicate.

Polish: kruchy

3 fragile

Lacking substance or significance:
— A fragile claim to fame.

synonyms: flimsy, slight, tenuous, thin.


Moby thesaurus: breakable, brittle, brittle as glass, capricious, changeable, cheap-jack, cobwebby, corruptible, crackable, crisp, crispy, crumbly, crushable, dainty, deciduous, decrepit, delicate, delicately weak, dying, effeminate ... show more.

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