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Meaning of 'fragile' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Fragile [ a.]
- Easily broken; brittle; frail; delicate; easily destroyed.

Meaning of 'fragile' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . fragile [ s]
Meaning (1):
- lacking substance or significance
Example in sentence:
  • a fragile claim to fame;
  • a tenuous argument;
  • a thin plot;
  • slight evidence
Meaning (2):
- easily broken or damaged or destroyed
Example in sentence:
  • a frail craft;
  • a kite too delicate to fly safely;
  • fragile old bones;
  • fragile porcelain plates
Meaning (3):
- vulnerably delicate
Example in sentence:
  • she has the fragile beauty of youth

Nearby Words:

fra frab frabbit fracas fracho fracid fract fracted fraction fractional

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