fragile

[FragĀ·ile]

If it's delicate and easily broken, like a rare glass vase or the feelings of an overly emotional friend, it's certainly fragile.

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Easily broken; brittle; frail; delicate; easily destroyed.

Adjective S.
vulnerably delicate; "she has the fragile beauty of youth"

Adjective S.
easily broken or damaged or destroyed; "a kite too delicate to fly safely"; "fragile porcelain plates"; "fragile old bones"; "a frail craft"

Adjective S.
lacking solidity or strength; "a flimsy table"; "flimsy construction"; "a fragile link with the past"


a.
Easily broken; brittle; frail; delicate; easily destroyed.


Fragile

Frag"ile , a. [L. fragilis, from frangere to break; cf. F. fragile. See Break, v. t., and cf. Frail, a.] Easily broken; brittle; frail; delicate; easily destroyed.
The state of ivy is tough, and not fragile.
Syn. -- Brittle; infirm; weak; frail; frangible; slight. -- Frag"ile*ly, adv.

Easily broken; brittle; frail; delicate; easily destroyed.

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Usage Examples

Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.

Beauty is a fragile gift.

Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

If the heart stops for more than two minutes, you have massive brain death. There are only two minutes between our conscious world and zero. That's how fragile our consciousness is.

Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile.

Parents need all the help they can get. The strongest as well as the most fragile family requires a vital network of social supports.

'I Know You Care' is really personal and fragile for me. For me, it's about losing a family member and also about a breakup. It's about this idea of losing someone for good.

A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy.

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Other Usage Examples

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.

I think men are afraid to be with a successful woman, because we are terribly strong, we know what we want and we are not fragile enough.

A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.

I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.

He didn't want to tell his son what to do, but told me to write the president a letter. I didn't name a country, but there are many countries we have a fragile relationship with.

A lot of guys have muscles. A lot of strong men in this world. I think it's important to show that even under all this strength there's a fragile side, a side that can be affected.

If we have built on the fragile cornerstones of human wisdom, pride, and conditional love, things may look good for a while, but a weak foundation causes collapse when storms hit.

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