1 easily broken or damaged:
fragile china / glass / bones * Be careful not to drop it; it's very fragile.
2 weak and uncertain; easily destroyed or spoilt:
a fragile alliance / ceasefire / relationship * The economy remains extremely fragile. * In her job she was used to dealing with actors' fragile egos.
3 delicate and often beautiful:
fragile beauty * The woman's fragile face broke into a smile.
4 not strong and likely to become ill:
Her father is now 86 and in fragile health. * (BrE, spoken) I'm feeling a bit fragile after last night (= not well, perhaps because of drinking too much alcohol).
fragility noun [U]:
the fragility of the human body * There was an air of fragility about him.
Rate this entry
About this entry
This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for fragile is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is fragile a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, fragile is tagged as adjective.
Does fragile appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — fragile appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
What is Lughet?
Lughet is a free trilingual dictionary covering nearly five million entries across Uyghur, Chinese, and English, drawn from more than ten source dictionaries and corpora.
