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Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (3)
1. easily broken or damaged or destroyed;
- Example: "a kite too delicate to fly safely"
- Example: "fragile porcelain plates"
- Example: "fragile old bones"
- Example: "a frail craft"
[syn: delicate, fragile, frail]
2. vulnerably delicate;
- Example: "she has the fragile beauty of youth"
3. lacking substance or significance;
- Example: "slight evidence"
- Example: "a tenuous argument"
- Example: "a thin plot" a fragile claim to fame";
[syn: flimsy, fragile, slight, tenuous, thin]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Fragile \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. [1913 Webster] The state of ivy is tough, and not fragile. --Bacon. Syn: Brittle; infirm; weak; frail; frangible; slight. -- Frag"ile*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003):
fragile adj. Syn brittle.Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
93 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
