Word Meanings - FRAGILE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Easily broken; brittle; frail; delicate; easily destroyed. The state of ivy is tough, and not fragile. Bacon. Syn. -- Brittle; infirm; weak; frail; frangible; slight. -- Frag"ile*ly, adv.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FRAGILE)

• Slender
• Thin
• narrow
• slight
• slim
• small
• trivial
• spare
• inadequate
• fragile
• feeble
• flimsy
• meagre
• inconsiderable
• superficial
• Weak
• Feeble
• infirm
• enfeebled
• powerless
• debile
• incompact
• inadhesive
• pliant
• frail
• oft
• tender
• milk and water
• flabby
• wishy washy
• destructible
• watery
• diluted
• imbecile
• inefficient
• spiritless
• foolish
• injudicious
• unsound
• undecided
• unconfirmed
• irrepressible
• wavering
• ductile
• easy
• malleable
• unconvincing
• inconclusive
• vapid
• pointless

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of FRAGILE)

• Regard
• respect
• notice
• observe
• Spend
• squander
• waste
• lavish
• scatter
• expend
• pour
• indulge
• vent
• Withhold
• withdraw
• retain
• appropriate

Related words: (words related to FRAGILE)

• WATER-BEARER
  The constellation Aquarius.
• SLIGHTNESS
  The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard.
• WATERWORT
  Any plant of the natural order Elatineæ, consisting of two genera , mostly small annual herbs growing in the edges of ponds. Some have a peppery or acrid taste.
• TENDER
  A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like. 3. A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water. (more info) 1. One who tends; one who takes
• WATER SHREW
  Any one of several species of shrews having fringed feet and capable of swimming actively. The two common European species are the best known. The most common American water shrew, or marsh shrew , is rarely seen, owing to its nocturnal habits.
• DILUTENESS
  The quality or state of being dilute. Bp. Wilkins.
• WATER-TIGHT
  So tight as to retain, or not to admit, water; not leaky.
• WATER RAT
  The water vole. See under Vole. The muskrat. The beaver rat. See under Beaver. 2. A thief on the water; a pirate.
• FRAILNESS
  Frailty.
• WASTEL
  A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. Chaucer. The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. Sir W. Scott.
• APPROPRIATENESS
  The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude.
• FRAIL
  A basket made of rushes, used chiefly for containing figs and raisins. 2. The quantity of raisins -- about thirty-two, fifty-six, or seventy-five pounds, -- contained in a frail. 3. A rush for weaving baskets. Johnson.
• MALLEABLE
  Capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers; -- applied to metals. Malleable iron, iron that is capable of extension or of being shaped under the hammer; decarbonized cast iron. See under Iron. --
• INEFFICIENT
  1. Not efficient; not producing the effect intended or desired; inefficacious; as, inefficient means or measures. 2. Incapable of, or indisposed to, effective action; habitually slack or remiss; effecting little or nothing; as, inefficient workmen;
• WATER CRAKE
  The dipper. The spotted crake . See Illust. of Crake. The swamp hen, or crake, of Australia.
• LAVISHNESS
  The quality or state of being lavish.
• WATER DOG
  A dog accustomed to the water, or trained to retrieve waterfowl. Retrievers, waters spaniels, and Newfoundland dogs are so trained.
• WATER SAIL
  A small sail sometimes set under a studding sail or under a driver boom, and reaching nearly to the water.
• WATER CLOCK
  An instrument or machine serving to measure time by the fall, or flow, of a certain quantity of water; a clepsydra.
• WASTETHRIFT
  A spendthrift.
• ALKALI WASTE
  Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• SWASHY
  Soft, like fruit that is too ripe; quashy; swash.
• BESCATTER
  1. To scatter over. 2. To cover sparsely by scattering ; to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser.
• OVERWASTED
  Wasted or worn out; Drayton.
• DISRESPECTABILITY
  Want of respectability. Thackeray.