Fragile
['frædʒaɪl] or ['frædʒəl]
Definition
(adj.) vulnerably delicate; 'she has the fragile beauty of youth' .
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Definition
(a.) Easily broken; brittle; frail; delicate; easily destroyed.
Editor: Upton
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Brittle, frangible, easily broken.[2]. Frail, weak, feeble, INFIRM.
Editor: Lou
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Delicate, frail, brittle, weak, slight, frangible
ANT:Tough, hardy, stout, strong
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Definition
adj. easily broken: frail: delicate.—n. Fragil′ity the state of being fragile.
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Examples
- Her pride and blameless ambition was to create smiles in all around her, and to shed repose on the fragile existence of her brother. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Her figure was light and airy; and, though capable of enduring great fatigue, she appeared the most fragile creature in the world. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Upon these fragile Piltdown fragments alone more than a hundred books, pamphlets, and papers have been written. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- His voice trembled, his eyes were cast up, his hands clasped, and his fragile person was bent, as it were, with excess of emotion. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Surely there never was such fragile china-ware as that of which the millers of Coketown were made. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- When did I whip up syllabub sonnets or string stanzas fragile as fragments of glass? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Eustacia sighed--it was no fragile maiden sigh, but a sigh which shook her like a shiver. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- It must then be on the plea of your son's delicate nerves and fragile constitution that I found a petition for our speedy adjournment. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- She laid the fragile figure down at once, and sat perfectly still for a few moments. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- His face was against her fine, fragile hair, he breathed its fragrance with the sea and the profound night. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- There is a kind of beauty so intense, yet so fragile, that we cannot bear to look at it. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- He had chosen this fragile creature, and had taken the burthen of her life upon his arMs. He must walk as he could, carrying that burthen pitifully. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He was practising strokes, looking very fragile under the light that came down above the billiard table. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- I thought that of all the stately front nothing remained but a shell-like wall, very high and very fragile-looking. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
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