Adjective
- 1. delicate, fragile, frail, breakable (vs. unbreakable)
- usage: easily broken or damaged or destroyed; "a kite too delicate to fly safely"; "fragile porcelain plates"; "fragile old bones"; "a frail craft"
- 2. fragile, delicate (vs. rugged)
- usage: vulnerably delicate; "she has the fragile beauty of youth"
- 3. flimsy, fragile, slight, tenuous, thin, insignificant (vs. significant), unimportant
- usage: lacking substance or significance; "slight evidence"; "a tenuous argument"; "a thin plot"; a fragile claim to fame"
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