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Definition of Fragile
1. Adjective. Easily broken or damaged or destroyed. "A frail craft"
2. Adjective. Vulnerably delicate. "She has the fragile beauty of youth"
3. Adjective. Lacking substance or significance. "A fragile claim to fame"
Similar to: Insignificant, Unimportant
Derivative terms: Slightness, Tenuity, Thinness
Definition of Fragile
1. a. Easily broken; brittle; frail; delicate; easily destroyed.
Definition of Fragile
1. Adjective. easily broken or destroyed, and thus often of subtle or intricate structure ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fragile
1. easily broken or damaged [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fragile
Literary usage of Fragile
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England by Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu (1826)
"Experiment solitary touching bodies fragile and tough. 841. Of bodies, some are
fragile : and some are tough, and not fragile; and in the breaking, ..."
2. The Works of Francis Bacon by Francis Bacon (1824)
"OF bodies, some are fragile ; and some are tough, and not fragile; and in the
breaking, some fragile bodies break but where the force is ; some shatter and ..."
3. The Preparation of Illustrations for Reports of the United States Geological by John Livesy Ridgway, Geological Survey (U.S.) (1920)
"BORROWED AND fragile SPECIMENS. In submitting specimens to be illustrated ...
As it may not be Desirable to apply this process to soft or fragile specimens ..."
4. The English Illustrated Magazine (1907)
"He snatched it up fragile Lady Jean, her husband's blade in In front of the
disabled Earl stood the fragile Lady Jean. and swung round with a cry of triumph ..."
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