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fragile, adj.
freq. cnt. 5
more info easily broken or damaged or destroyed
<adj.all>   freq. cnt.: 6 freq. cnt.: 3 freq. cnt.: 3

delicate fragile frail

sample sentences

"a kite too delicate to fly safely"
"fragile porcelain plates"
"fragile old bones"
"a frail craft"
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
fragility
semantic pointers
similar to
breakable
more info vulnerably delicate
<adj.all>   freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 2

fragile

sample sentences

"she has the fragile beauty of youth"
semantic pointers
similar to
delicate
more info lacking substance or significance
<adj.all>

flimsy fragile slight tenuous thin

sample sentences

"slight evidence"
"a tenuous argument"
"a thin plot"
"a fragile claim to fame"
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
slightness
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
tenuity
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
thinness
semantic pointers
similar to
insignificant, unimportant