Fragile

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Fragile \Frag"ile\, a. [L. fragilis, from frangere to break; cf.
     F. fragile. See {Break}, v. t., and cf. {Frail}, a.]
     Easily broken; brittle; frail; delicate; easily destroyed.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           The state of ivy is tough, and not fragile. --Bacon.


  
     Syn: Brittle; infirm; weak; frail; frangible; slight. --
          {Frag"ile*ly}, adv.
          [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  fragile
       adj 1: easily broken or damaged or destroyed; "a kite too delicate
              to fly safely"; "fragile porcelain plates"; "fragile
              old bones"; "a frail craft" [syn: {delicate}, {frail}]
       2: vulnerably delicate; "she has the fragile beauty of youth"
       3: lacking solidity or strength; "a flimsy table"; "flimsy
          construction"; "a fragile link with the past" [syn: {flimsy}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  93 Moby Thesaurus words for "fragile":
     breakable, brittle, brittle as glass, capricious, changeable,
     cheap-jack, cobwebby, corruptible, crackable, crisp, crispy,
     crumbly, crushable, dainty, deciduous, decrepit, delicate,
     delicately weak, dying, effeminate, ephemeral, evanescent, fading,
     feeble, fickle, fissile, fleeting, flimsy, flitting, fly-by-night,
     flying, fracturable, frail, frangible, friable, fugacious,
     fugitive, gimcrack, gimcracky, gossamery, impermanent, impetuous,
     impulsive, inconstant, infirm, insubstantial, jerry, jerry-built,
     lacerable, light, lightweight, momentary, mortal, mutable,
     namby-pamby, nondurable, nonpermanent, papery, passing,
     pasteboardy, perishable, puny, rickety, scissile, shaky,
     shatterable, shattery, shivery, short, short-lived, sissified,
     sleazy, slight, splintery, tacky, temporal, temporary, tenuous,
     thin, transient, transitive, transitory, undurable, unenduring,
     unsound, unstable, unsubstantial, volatile, vulnerable, weak,
     weakly, wispy, womanish
  
  

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  fragile adj. Syn {brittle}.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  fragile
       
          {brittle}