Usually means: Easily broken or damaged; delicate.
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We found 38 dictionaries that define the word fragile:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. fragile: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. fragile: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fragile: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fragile: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fragile: Vocabulary.com
  6. Fragile, fragile: Wordnik
  7. fragile: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. fragile: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. fragile: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Fragile, fragile: Dictionary.com
  11. fragile: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. Fragile (Cherrelle album), Fragile (Dead or Alive album), Fragile (Kygo and Labrinth song), Fragile (Midge Ure album), Fragile (Saron Gas album), Fragile (Sting song), Fragile (Tech N9ne song), Fragile (Yes album), Fragile (film), Fragile (song), Fragile (video game), Fragile, The Fragile (Nine Inch Nails album), The Fragile (O'Hooley & Tidow album), The Fragile: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Fragile: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. fragile: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. fragile: Rhymezone
  16. fragile, fragile, fragile: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. fragile: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. fragile: Free Dictionary
  19. fragile: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. fragile: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  21. fragile: Dictionary/thesaurus
  22. fragile: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  23. fragile: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  24. fragile: Wiktionary

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Fragile: eyefortransport e-commerce transportation glossary
  2. Fragile (album), fragile: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. fragile: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Fragile (album), fragile: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. fragile: Medical dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. fragile: Dictionary of Botanical Epithets
  2. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. the fragile: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See fragility as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Easily broken or destroyed, and thus often of subtle or intricate structure.
adjective:  (UK) Feeling weak or easily disturbed as a result of illness.
adjective:  (UK) Thin-skinned or oversensitive.
noun:  Something that is fragile.

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