Main entry: fragile
Definition: vulnerably delicate
Usage: she has the fragile beauty of youth
Main entry: delicate, fragile, frail
Definition: easily broken or damaged or destroyed
Usage: a kite too delicate to fly safely; fragile porcelain plates; fragile old bones; a frail craft
Main entry: tenuous, thin, fragile, flimsy, slight
Definition: lacking substance or significance
Usage: slight evidence; a tenuous argument; a thin plot; a fragile claim to fame