Another word for fragile
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Adjective
Easily broken or damaged
- Capable of being broken; breakable.
- Pleasing to the senses, especially in a subtle way:
- Easily broken or damaged:
- Exquisitely fine or dainty:
- Likely to break, snap, or crack, as when subjected to pressure:
- Easily damaged or disrupted; fragile:
- Difficult to deal with; snappish:
- Liable to break or to be broken.
- An article that can be broken easily:
See also:Not physically strong
- Delicate in constitution; frail or sickly.
- With little physical strength or force.
- With little strength of character.
- Lacking physical strength, energy, or vigor; feeble.
- Likely to fail under pressure, stress, or strain; lacking resistance:
- Lacking firmness of character or strength of will:
- Lacking material substance; insubstantial.
- Lacking firmness or strength; flimsy.
- Lacking basis in fact.
- Not dependably strong or solid.
- Not physically or mentally healthy.
- Not true or logically valid; fallacious:
- Of inferior size, strength, or significance; weak:
- Sickly; ill.
- Not firm or solid; weak or flimsy:
- Very small or negligible, as in importance, size, or amount:
- Lacking or appearing to lack substance or reality:
- Weak in body or mind, especially from old age or disease.
- Not strong or stable; shaky:
- Lacking firmness of will, character, or purpose; irresolute.
- Physically weak or delicate:
- Easily broken or destroyed; fragile:
- Not strong or substantial; slight:
- Light, thin, and insubstantial:
- Lacking solidity or strength; easily damaged:
- Lacking plausibility; unconvincing:
- Lacking bodily strength; weak:
- Having little intensity or strength; faint:
- Having little capacity to withstand pressure or strain:
- Pleasing to the senses, especially in a subtle way:
- Easily broken or damaged:
- Exquisitely fine or dainty:
- Weakened, worn out, impaired, or broken down by old age, illness, or hard use.
See also:
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Another word for fragile
Modifier
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- Light, thin, and insubstantial:
- Lacking solidity or strength; easily damaged:
- Lacking plausibility; unconvincing:
- Lacking physical strength, energy, or vigor; feeble.
- Likely to fail under pressure, stress, or strain; lacking resistance:
- Lacking firmness of character or strength of will:
- Delicately beautiful or charming and usually small:
- Delicious; tasty:
- Fastidious or finicky:
- Likely to break, snap, or crack, as when subjected to pressure:
- Easily damaged or disrupted; fragile:
- Difficult to deal with; snappish:
- Readily crumbled; brittle:
- Capable of being broken; breakable.
- Liable to break or to be broken.
- An article that can be broken easily:
- Pleasing to the senses, especially in a subtle way:
- Easily broken or damaged:
- Exquisitely fine or dainty:
- Physically weak or delicate:
- Easily broken or destroyed; fragile:
- Not strong or substantial; slight:
Synonym Study
- Friable is applied to something that is easily crumbled or crushed into powder friable rock
- Crisp suggests a desirable sort of brittleness, as of fresh celery or crackers
- Brittle implies such inelasticity as to be easily broken or shattered by pressure or a blow the bones of the body become brittle with age
- Frangible connotes a liability to being broken because of the use to which the thing is put the bridge was constructed with frangible stone
- Fragile implies such delicacy of structure as to be easily broken a fragile china teacup
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