Define the word fragile"Fragile" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
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.
[1913 Webster]
The state of ivy is tough, and not fragile. --Bacon.
Syn: Brittle; infirm; weak; frail; frangible; slight. --
Frag"ile*ly, adv.
[1913 Webster]
"fragile" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"
fragile
adj 1: easily broken or damaged or destroyed; "a kite too delicate
to fly safely"; "fragile porcelain plates"; "fragile
old bones"; "a frail craft" [syn: delicate, frail]
2: vulnerably delicate; "she has the fragile beauty of youth"
3: lacking solidity or strength; "a flimsy table"; "flimsy
construction"; "a fragile link with the past" [syn: flimsy]
"fragile" moby-thes "Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0"
93 Moby Thesaurus words for "fragile":
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
"fragile" jargon "Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)"
fragile adj. Syn brittle.
"fragile" foldoc "The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)"
fragile
brittle
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