Meaning

4 senses
  1. Easily broken, not sturdy; of delicate material.

    She caught the fragile vase before it could shatter on the floor.

    The chemist synthesizes a fragile molecule.

    easily broken or damaged or destroyed

  2. (figuratively)Readily disrupted or destroyed.

    The UN tries to maintain the fragile peace process in the region.

    fragil, zerbrechlich

    хру́пкийxrúpkij, ло́мкийlómkij

    крихки́йkryxkýj, ламки́йlamkýj, ломки́йlomkýj

  3. (UK)Feeling weak or easily disturbed as a result of illness.

  4. (UK)Thin-skinned or oversensitive.

    He is a very fragile person and gets easily depressed.

Examples

108 sentences
  1. What's in this box is fragile.

  2. What's in this box is very fragile.

    ruСодержимое этой коробки очень хрупкое. — soweli_Elepanto

  3. Please put a fragile sticker on this box.

  4. There's a sticker on the box that says "fragile."

    deAuf der Schachtel ist ein Aufkleber mit der Aufschrift „zerbrechlich“. — raggione

  5. Tom was careful not to drop the box marked fragile.

Translations

9 languages
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Origin

Borrowed from Middle French fragile, from Latin fragilis, formed on frag-, the root of fra

Borrowed from Middle French fragile, from Latin fragilis, formed on frag-, the root of frangere (“to break”). Cognate with fraction, fracture and doublet of frail.

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