Fragile Definition

frăjəl, -īl
adjective
Easily broken, damaged, or destroyed.
Webster's New World
Physically weak; frail; delicate.
Webster's New World
Tenuous; flimsy.
A fragile hope.
Webster's New World

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.
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Origin of Fragile

  • From Middle French fragile, from Latin fragilis, formed on frag-, the root of frangere (“to break”). Cognate with frail, fraction, fracture.

    From Wiktionary

  • French from Old French from Latin fragilis from frangere frag- to break bhreg- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Fragile Sentence Examples

  • You can't protect someone so fragile from what's coming.

  • She had entrusted him with the fragile framework of her dreams and he had stumbled.

  • These models were so fragile that they usually broke in coming in contact with the ground in their descent.

  • He was fragile, narrow-shouldered and of a sickly constitution.

  • The vases of Karl Koepping of Berlin are so fantastic and so fragile that they appear to be creations of the lamp rather than of the furnace.

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