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[ US /ˈfɹædʒəɫ/ ]
[ UK /fɹˈæd‍ʒa‍ɪl/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. vulnerably delicate
    she has the fragile beauty of youth
  2. lacking substance or significance
    a tenuous argument
    slight evidence
    a thin plot
    a fragile claim to fame
  3. 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.
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