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Another word for frail

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frail

modif.

fragile, delicate, infirm, slight; see dainty 1, fragile, sick, weak 1. See syn. study at weak.

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Another word for frail

adjective

Not physically strong:

decrepit, delicate, feeble, flimsy, fragile, infirm, insubstantial, puny, unsound, unsubstantial, weak, weakly. See strong

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Dean noticed her frail form near the front, seated alone.
He gave the frail woman a hug and described the reason for his visit.
Lana smiled, amused at such hardcore words from a woman whose frail frame would struggle under the weight of a laser shotgun.
She felt somehow drawn to the picture of a frail looking girl with dark eyes that looked out hauntingly from a delicately beautiful face.
Though he discharged his civic duties in spite of a frail physique, he emphasized the sorrows of life; and yet he advocated no hopeless resignation, but rather the remedy of work, and took as his model Heracles, the embodiment of virile activity.

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