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fragile

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of fragile

1 easily broken

  • attaching the beautiful but fragile ornaments to the Christmas tree is always a touchy operation
Synonyms of fragile

breakable, delicate, frail, frangible
Words Related to fragile

dainty, fine, gossamer

eggshell, flimsy, slight, tenuous

brittle, crisp, crispy, crumbly, crushable, embrittled, flaky (also flakey), friable, shaky, shivery, short

feeble, infirm, soft, spindly, tender, weak

inelastic, inflexible, stiff
Near Antonyms of fragile

compact, firm, hard, rigid, solid, substantial, unyielding

elastic, flexible, resilient, rubberlike, rubbery, springy, stretch, stretchable, supple
Antonyms of fragile

infrangible, nonbreakable, strong, sturdy, tough, unbreakable

2 easily injured without careful handling

  • babies are fragile, so remember to care for them gently
Synonyms of fragile

delicate, frail, sensitive, tender
Words Related to fragile

breakable, brittle, crushable, eggshell, frangible, friable

feeble, flimsy, puny, slight, soft, tenuous, weak

nonhardy, perishable, resistless, susceptible, unresistant, vulnerable, yielding
Near Antonyms of fragile

durable, firm, flinty, hard, hardy, resistant, robust, rugged, solid, sound, stiff, stout, strong, sturdy, substantial

infrangible, nonbreakable, unbreakable

hardened, inured, strengthened, tempered, toughened
Antonyms of fragile

tough

3 small in degree

  • a fragile possibility that we might emerge from this fiasco unscathed
Synonyms of fragile

frail, negligible, off, outside, remote, slight, slim, small
Words Related to fragile

marginal, minimal, minor

little, tiny
Near Antonyms of fragile

great, large

distinct, significant

considerable, goodly, healthy, largish, respectable, significant, sizable (or sizeable), substantial, tidy
Antonyms of fragile

good

Synonym Discussion of fragile

fragile, frangible, brittle, crisp, friable mean breaking easily. fragile implies extreme delicacy of material or construction and need for careful handling.
    • a fragile antique chair
frangible implies susceptibility to being broken without implying weakness or delicacy.
    • frangible stone used for paving
brittle implies hardness together with lack of elasticity or flexibility or toughness.
    • brittle bones
crisp implies a firmness and brittleness desirable especially in some foods.
    • crisp lettuce
friable applies to substances that are easily crumbled or pulverized.
    • friable soil

synonyms see in addition weak

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