adjective
definition
Easily broken or destroyed, and thus often of subtle or intricate structure.
example
He is a very fragile person and gets easily depressed.
definition
Feeling weak or easily disturbed as a result of illness.
Examples of fragile in a Sentence
You can't protect someone so fragile from what's coming.
She had entrusted him with the fragile framework of her dreams and he had stumbled.
These models were so fragile that they usually broke in coming in contact with the ground in their descent.
He was fragile, narrow-shouldered and of a sickly constitution.
The vases of Karl Koepping of Berlin are so fantastic and so fragile that they appear to be creations of the lamp rather than of the furnace.
Edith is a very fragile woman.
The incessant and exhausting labours to which Calvin gave himself could not but tell on his fragile constitution.
Taylor's fragile health gave way; he fell into a decline, died on the 29th of December 1731, at Somerset House, and was buried at St Ann's, Soho.
She felt too fragile to deal with him.
Betsy was alone on the porch but as we approached, Martha opened the screen door, her arm around a frail looking man, about five-seven, who wore an off-center toupee and a fragile smile.
There are electric tramways and a good water-supply, but most of the older houses are fragile wooden structures coated with lime or mud, and the sanitation is defective.
The effects on the fragile desert ecosystem are still being felt today.
Baby Claire helped too, by taking her turn by demanding attention while I spent the time worrying about how I could protect the nest of fragile souls under my care.
Many of the phenomena of Winter are suggestive of an inexpressible tenderness and fragile delicacy.
She'd proven how willing she was to become his companion, a surprise considering she really did seem fragile in his world.
Gypsum is found in large quantities in the plain of Kandahar, being dug out in fragile coralline masses from near the surface.
She seems so tiny and fragile next to Jen.
If you don't like the orchid, it's okay, my ego isn't that fragile.
If you decide to order your flowers online, investigate the company carefully to be sure they have the skills and experience to work with fragile tropical flowers.
Martha was playing nurse maid to both Howie's limitations and his fragile ego while struggling with morning sickness and her stressful hospital position.
For this reason some observers use a thin strip of phosphor bronze to suspend the magnet, considering that the absence of a variable torsion more than compensates for the increased difficulty in handling the more fragile metallic suspension.
The fragile urban economy provides many with only the barest subsistence.
The Studio offers a limited commercial service for the wet cleaning of large, fragile textiles.
It is quite delicate and may be too fragile for little hands.
God, he's so fragile this will kill him.
A large powder puff caressed his rear adding a fragile scent of spring flowers to this unbelievable pleasure.
Pupa Lives in a very fragile cocoon below the soil and is said to produce a squeaking sound shortly before the adult emerges.
About to take over whole swathes of fragile humanity.
It also meant that a new and powerful management system could be created, without altering a fragile and very out-of-date system.
Its fragile, cup shaped white or pale pink flowers are carried in loose panicles on slender stems from spring to early summer.
These fragile ecosystems are highly sensitive to changes in temperature.
The box is missing half from the top of the slide on outer sleeve, edges of sleeve fragile.
But her fragile 75ft trimaran, B&Q, is taking a battering in the rough seas of the Southern Ocean.
The talks came to nothing because IRA demands were too high and because the accompanying fragile truce broke down in contentious circumstances.
The specimens should be collected when the capsules are just appearing above or in the colesule or calyx; if kept in a damp saucer they soon arrive at maturity, and can then be mounted in better condition, the fruit-stalks being too fragile to bear carriage in a botanical tin case without injury.
Try not to press on the ceiling, tin ceiling panels are often fragile and are easily dented.
Make sure to pack fragile items in things like bubble wrap to ensure that your customer gets the item in the condition that you ship it.
A fragile plant, 4 to 6 inches high, with broad leaves, it throws out long slender rhizomes, wholly above ground, and thrives in sandy earth, in borders, or on the rock garden.
C. fastigiata is one of the most fragile and beautiful of alpine woody plants; it may be grown without much trouble with the more common C. tetragona.
The problem is that this is a very fragile form of communication.
Individuals with Fragile X have a higher than average risk of developing autism spectrum disorders.
Cade gently slipped his hands under the infant and lifted him as though he were made of fragile glass.
He continued to have nightmares over the incident, renewing our concerns over his fragile mental wellbeing.
The Everio is neither chunky nor fragile, but this dinky new crossbreed is a tad too Shetland pony.
This would wreak devastation in such a fragile environment.
Increased breakdown of skin proteins makes the skin more fragile.
For someone so emotionally fragile, it might prove a dangerous form of therapy.
Many of these areas are environmentally fragile and forested.
We live on that incredibly fragile, thin layer of plates floating on the subterranean sea of magma.
It's a blessing that such a curious and fragile pop oddity can exist in this blustery and busy modern world.