[
UK
/fɹˈeɪl/
]
[ US /ˈfɹeɪɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈfɹeɪɫ/ ]
NOUN
- a basket for holding dried fruit (especially raisins or figs)
- the weight of a frail (basket) full of raisins or figs; between 50 and 75 pounds
ADJECTIVE
-
physically weak
an invalid's frail body -
wanting in moral strength, courage, or will; having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings
I'm only a fallible human
frail humanity -
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 frail In A Sentence
- Women suffering from anorexia are still convinced that their thin, frail bodies are fat and unsightly. Conversely, some people who are a great deal heavier than they should be can persuade themselves that they are 'just right'.
- Test cricket can examine bravery, it can expose technical frailties, and it can take players into new territory. Times, Sunday Times
- Farther along they spied calami, adversi, frail, and pomposi, which were worse, so they gave up on their search for anything better. Faun & Games
- Despite increasing physical frailty, he continued to write stories.
- She died after a long period of increasing frailty.
- When television replays and closeups became possible, all this human frailty and professional ruthlessness became multiplied many times. Times, Sunday Times
- The old ferryman has become so frail that he no longer rows the ferry.
- Only then can she appreciate Leopolda's definition of love as ‘brutalizing, a raw force, frail as blossoms, tough as catgut wire’.
- I'm now researching the possibility of setting up a similar house for frail elderly people, as an alternative to larger care homes.
- Its flowers nod on frail stalks that spring straight from a rosette of heart-shaped leaves. Times, Sunday Times
