Definitions for fragile



Overview of adj fragile

The adj fragile has 3 senses? (first 2 from tagged texts)
1. (3) delicate, fragile, frail

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

2. (2) fragile

(vulnerably delicate; "she has the fragile beauty of youth")

3. flimsy, fragile, slight, tenuous, thin

(lacking substance or significance; "slight evidence"; "a tenuous argument"; "a thin plot"; a fragile claim to fame")

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