fragile
adjective
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 adjective
easily broken or damaged or destroyed
a kite too delicate to fly safely
Related & opposite
Sense 2 adjective
vulnerably delicate
she has the fragile beauty of youth
Related & opposite
- delicate similar to
Sense 3 adjective
lacking substance or significance
slight evidence
Related & opposite
- feebleness derivation
- spareness derivation
- triviality derivation
- unimportant similar to
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | fragility |
| 1 | similar to | Related & opposite | breakable |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | delicate |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | feebleness |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | spareness |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | triviality |
| 3 | similar to | Related & opposite | unimportant |