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fragile

  • adjective
  • fra·gil
  • /ˈfɹæd͡ʒaɪl/

Easily broken, not sturdy; of delicate material.

Other meanings

  1. Readily disrupted or destroyed.

  2. Feeling weak or easily disturbed as a result of illness.

Synonyms

  • delicate

Related words

  • fragilely
  • fragile masculinity
  • fragileness
  • warmblood fragile foal syndrome
  • fragile X syndrome
  • fragilization
  • fragilize
  • hyperfragile
  • nonfragile
  • superfragile
  • ultrafragile
  • unfragile

Example sentences

  • “Our life on this planet is so fragile.”

    Tatoeba · shekitten · CC0

  • “The pollution was damaging the fragile ecosystem.”

    Tatoeba · Igider · CC0

Word history

From Latin "fragilis".

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “fragile” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.