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Another word for fragile

Adjective

  1. Easily broken or damaged

    2. See also:

    strong

  2. Not physically strong

    3. See also:

    strong

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Another word for fragile

Modifier
    2. See also:

    weak

    dainty

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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Sentence Examples

  • You can't protect someone so fragile from what's coming.

  • She had entrusted him with the fragile framework of her dreams and he had stumbled.

  • These models were so fragile that they usually broke in coming in contact with the ground in their descent.

  • The incessant and exhausting labours to which Calvin gave himself could not but tell on his fragile constitution.

  • The vases of Karl Koepping of Berlin are so fantastic and so fragile that they appear to be creations of the lamp rather than of the furnace.

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