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US
/ˈfɹædʒəɫ/
]
[ UK /fɹˈædʒaɪl/ ]
[ UK /fɹˈædʒaɪl/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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vulnerably delicate
she has the fragile beauty of youth -
lacking substance or significance
a tenuous argument
slight evidence
a thin plot
a fragile claim to fame -
easily broken or damaged or destroyed
fragile porcelain plates
a kite too delicate to fly safely
fragile old bones
a frail craft
How To Use fragile In A Sentence
- I really like this definition, the photo surface is as sensitive and fragile as if it was alive and des-troying itself little by little.
- The flow of assistance to Vietnam's fragile economy from its ideological allies has virtually halted.
- Though the population is still fragile, today as many as 1,000 birds overwinter in the state.
- But I now understand how fragile its mighty wilderness really is.
- Being victims of their own success, many dime novels and yellowbacks are fragile or in poor repair.
- All specimens are exuviae, with thin and fragile carapaces and abdomens and fragmentary bodies and appendages.
- The note on the box said 'Fragile - handle with care '.
- The skin of people with EB simplex is so fragile that even minor rubbing may cause blistering.
- Marginal and fragile lands cleared for export crop production rapidly become infertile and erosion prone.
- In the seventeenth century, the country was ruled by a monarch with a severe speech impediment and a fragile ego.