Synonyms of the word frail


FRAILBASKET - BREAKABLE - DEBILE - DECREPIT - DELICATE - FALLIBLE - FEEBLE - FRAGILE - HANDBASKET - HUMAN - IMPERFECT - INFIRM - RICKETY - SAPLESS - WEAK - WEAKLY - WEIGHT

frail

  • adj. Easily broken; mentally or physically fragile; not firm or durable; liable to fail and perish; easily…
  • adj. Liable to fall from virtue or be led into sin; not strong against temptation; weak in resolution; unchaste.
  • n. A basket made of rushes, used chiefly for containing figs and raisins.
  • n. The quantity of raisins contained in a frail.
  • n. A rush for weaving baskets.
  • n. (dated, slang) A girl.
  • v. To play a stringed instrument, usually a banjo, by picking with the back of a fingernail.

basket

  • n. A lightweight container, generally round, open at the top, and tapering toward the bottom.
  • n. A wire or plastic container similar in shape to a basket, used for carrying articles for purchase in a…
  • n. In an online shop, a notional place to store items before ordering them.
  • n. (basketball) A circular hoop, from which a net is suspended, which is the goal through which the players…
  • n. (basketball) The act of putting the ball through the basket, thereby scoring points.
  • n. The game of basketball.
  • n. A dance movement in some line dances, where men put their arms round the women's lower backs, and the…
  • n. (Britain, slang) A manbulge.
  • n. (obsolete) In a stage-coach, two outside seats facing each other.
  • n. (archaic) A protection for the hand on a sword or a singlestick; a guard of a bladed weapon.
  • n. (ballooning) Where the pilot and passengers are.
  • n. (architecture) The bell or vase of the Corinthian capital.
  • v. To place in a basket or in baskets.

breakable

  • adj. Able to be broken.
  • adj. Fragile.
  • n. Something that is (easily) breakable.
  • n. (usually in the plural, music) A set of customized hardware that is part of a drum kit. Breakables typically…

debile

  • adj. (obsolete) Weak.

decrepit

  • adj. Weakened or worn out from age or wear.

delicate

  • adj. Easily damaged or requiring careful handling.
  • adj. Characterized by a fine structure or thin lines.
  • adj. Intended for use with fragile items.
  • adj. Refined; gentle; scrupulous not to trespass or offend; considerate; said of manners, conduct, or feelings.
  • adj. Of weak health; easily sick; unable to endure hardship.
  • adj. (informal) Unwell, especially because of having drunk too much alcohol.
  • adj. (obsolete) Addicted to pleasure; luxurious; voluptuous; alluring.
  • adj. Pleasing to the senses; refined; adapted to please an elegant or cultivated taste.
  • adj. Slight and shapely; lovely; graceful.
  • adj. Light, or softly tinted; said of a colour.
  • adj. Of exacting tastes and habits; dainty; fastidious.
  • adj. Highly discriminating or perceptive; refinedly critical; sensitive; exquisite.
  • adj. Affected by slight causes; showing slight changes.
  • n. A delicate item of clothing, especially underwear or lingerie.
  • n. (obsolete) A choice dainty; a delicacy.
  • n. (obsolete) A delicate, luxurious, or effeminate person.

fallible

  • adj. Capable of making mistakes or being wrong.

feeble

  • adj. Deficient in physical strength; weak; infirm; debilitated.
  • adj. Lacking force, vigor, or efficiency in action or expression; faint.
  • v. (obsolete) To make feeble; to enfeeble.

fragile

  • adj. Easily broken or destroyed, and thus often of subtle or intricate structure.

handbasket

  • n. A basket with a handle.

human

  • adj. (not comparable) Of or belonging to the species Homo sapiens or its closest relatives.
  • adj. (comparable) Having the nature or attributes of a human being.
  • n. A human being, whether man, woman or child.
  • v. (rare) To behave as or become, or to cause to behave as or become, a human.

imperfect

  • adj. Not perfect.
  • adj. (botany) unisexual: having either male (with stamens) or female (with pistil) flowers, but not with both.
  • adj. (taxonomy) Known or expected to be polyphyletic, as of a form taxon.
  • adj. (obsolete) Lacking some elementary organ that is essential to successful or normal activity.
  • n. Something having a minor flaw.
  • n. (grammar) A tense of verbs used in describing a past action that is incomplete or continuous.
  • v. (transitive) To make imperfect.

infirm

  • adj. Weak or ill, not in good health.
  • adj. Irresolute; weak of mind or will.
  • adj. Frail; unstable; insecure.
  • v. To contradict, to provide proof that something is not.

rickety

  • adj. Of an object: not strong or sturdy, as because of poor construction or upkeep; not safe or secure; giddy;…
  • adj. Of a person: feeble in the joints; tottering.
  • adj. Affected with or suffering from rickets.

sapless

  • adj. (of a plant) Lacking in sap.
  • adj. (figuratively, of a person etc.) Lacking vivacity.

weak

  • adj. Lacking in force (usually strength) or ability.
  • adj. Unable to sustain a great weight, pressure, or strain.
  • adj. Unable to withstand temptation, urgency, persuasion, etc.; easily impressed, moved, or overcome; accessible;…
  • adj. Dilute, lacking in taste or potency.
  • adj. (grammar) Displaying a particular kind of inflection, including.
  • adj. (chemistry) That does not ionize completely into anions and cations in a solution.
  • adj. (physics) One of the four fundamental forces associated with nuclear decay.
  • adj. (slang) Bad or uncool.
  • adj. (mathematics, logic) Having a narrow range of logical consequences; narrowly applicable. (Often contrasted…
  • adj. Resulting from, or indicating, lack of judgment, discernment, or firmness; unwise; hence, foolish.
  • adj. Not having power to convince; not supported by force of reason or truth; unsustained.
  • adj. Lacking in vigour or expression.
  • adj. Not prevalent or effective, or not felt to be prevalent; not potent; feeble.
  • adj. (stock exchange) Tending towards lower prices.
  • adj. (photography) Lacking contrast.

weakly

  • adj. Frail, sickly or of a delicate constitution; weak.
  • adv. With little strength or force.

weight

  • n. The force on an object due to the gravitational attraction between it and the Earth (or whatever astronomical…
  • n. An object used to make something heavier.
  • n. A standardized block of metal used in a balance to measure the mass of another object.
  • n. Importance or influence.
  • n. (weightlifting) A disc of iron, dumbbell, or barbell used for training the muscles.
  • n. (physics) Mass (net weight, atomic weight, molecular weight, troy weight, carat weight, etc.).
  • n. (statistics) A variable which multiplies a value for ease of statistical manipulation.
  • n. (topology) The smallest cardinality of a base.
  • n. (typography) The boldness of a font; the relative thickness of its strokes.
  • n. (visual art) The relative thickness of a drawn rule or painted brushstroke, line weight.
  • n. (visual art) The illusion of mass.
  • n. (visual art) The thickness and opacity of paint.
  • n. Pressure; burden.
  • n. The resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed to the power which moves it.
  • n. (slang, uncountable) Shipments of (often illegal) drugs.
  • v. (transitive) To add weight to something; to make something heavier.
  • v. (transitive) To load, burden or oppress someone.
  • v. (transitive, mathematics) To assign weights to individual statistics.
  • v. (transitive) To bias something; to slant.
  • v. (transitive, horse racing) To handicap a horse with a specified weight.

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