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fragile 音標拼音: [fr'ædʒəl] a. 易碎的,脆的 易碎的,脆的 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" [ synonym: { delicate}, { fragile}, { frail}] 2: vulnerably delicate; " she has the fragile beauty of youth" 3: lacking substance or significance; " slight evidence"; " a tenuous argument"; " a thin plot"; a fragile claim to fame" [ synonym: { flimsy}, { fragile}, { slight}, { tenuous}, { thin}] 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] 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 |
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