Fragile

Adjective

 * 1) easily broken or destroyed, and thus often of subtle or intricate structure
 * The chemist synthesizes a fragile molecule.
 * The UN tries to maintain the fragile peace process in the region.
 * He is a very fragile person and gets easily depressed.

Adverbs for Fragile
delicately; infirmly; weakly; languidly; increasingly; terribly; totteringly; tremulously; decrepitly; defensely; flimsily; nervously; frightfully; shakily; hopelessly; irremediably; uncommonly.

Synonyms for Fragile
friable, weak, feeble, delicate, frail, brittle, infirm, breakable.

Antonyms for Fragile
hardy, robust, strong, tough, elastic, firm, vigorous, wiry, virile, resistant, unbreakable, coarse, thick, enduring, sinewy.

Related terms

 * fractal
 * fraction
 * fractional
 * fracture
 * fragility
 * frail
 * frailty
 * frangible

Thesaurus
breakable, brittle, brittle as glass, capricious, changeable, cheap-jack, cobwebby, corruptible, crackable, crisp, crispy, crumbly, crushable, dainty, deciduous, decrepit, delicate, delicately weak, dying, effeminate, ephemeral, evanescent, fading, feeble, fickle, fissile, fleeting, flimsy, flitting, fly-by-night, flying, fracturable, frail, frangible, friable, fugacious, fugitive, gimcrack, gimcracky, gossamery, impermanent, impetuous, impulsive, inconstant, infirm, insubstantial, jerry, jerry-built, lacerable, light, lightweight, momentary, mortal, mutable, namby-pamby, nondurable, nonpermanent, papery, passing, pasteboardy, perishable, puny, rickety, scissile, shaky, shatterable, shattery, shivery, short, short-lived, sissified, sleazy, slight, splintery, tacky, temporal, temporary, tenuous, thin, transient, transitive, transitory, undurable, unenduring, unsound, unstable, unsubstantial, volatile, vulnerable, weak, weakly, wispy, womanish

Etymology
From fragilis:, formed on frag-, the root of frangere:. Cognate with frail:, fraction:, fracture:.

Pronunciation

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 * USA

Translations

 * Czech:
 * Danish: skrøbelig, spinkel
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: fragila
 * Finnish: hauras, särkyvä
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian: törékeny


 * Italian: fragile
 * Manx: so-vrishey
 * Papiamentu: bròs
 * Polish: kruchy
 * Russian: хрупкий
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: kırılgan, narin,  hassas,  çıtkırıldım,  kırılabilir

Etymology
fragilis:.

Adjective

 * 1) fragile

Related terms

 * fragiliser
 * fragilité

Anagrams

 * giflera

Etymology
From fragilis:.

Adjective

 * 1) fragile

Related terms

 * fragilità
 * fragilmente