fragile
adjective
1. easily broken or damaged or destroyed
- fragile porcelain plates
- fragile old bones
- a frail craft
Similar word(s): breakable, delicate, frail
2. vulnerably delicate
- she has the fragile beauty of youth
Similar word(s): delicate
3. lacking substance or significance
- a fragile claim to fame
Similar word(s): insignificant, unimportant, flimsy, slight, tenuous, thin
Sentences with fragile as an adjective:
- The chemist synthesizes a fragile molecule.
- The UN tries to maintain the fragile peace process in the region.
- He is a very fragile person and gets easily depressed.