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Definition of fragile : Easily broken; brittle; frail; delicate; easily destroyed.

Synonyms:

slim, fallible, svelte, strong, friable, dainty, lean, unconvincing, insubstantial, imperfect, finespun, sparse, unsound, slight, unsubstantial, thin, puny, weakly, little, slender, tenuous, ticklish

crisp, fracturable, frangible, delicate, breakable

doddering, debilitated, frail, feeble, powerless, infirm, soft, rickety, decrepit, faint, run-down, weak, ailing, flimsy, sickly

edgy, volcanic, ardent, cranky, tempestuous, hot-tempered, nervous, excitable, sensitive, fiery, short-tempered, crusty, impulsive, emotional, brittle, passionate, irritable, rash, reckless, stormy, quick-tempered, explosive, touchy, combustible, high-strung, volatile

Usage examples:

• For light, though so fragile, is perhaps the one thing of all that yields naught of itself as it faces immensity. - "Wisdom and Destiny", Maurice Maeterlinck.
• But his hands were old, delicate, fine and fragile; and the lips beneath the drooping white mustache at times trembled, almost imperceptibly, with the generous sentiments that come with mellow age. - "The Black Bag", Louis Joseph Vance.
• Her emotions were very delicate, very fragile, and enormously difficult to perceive. - "Linda Condon", Joseph Hergesheimer.