Usually means: Weak and delicate in structure.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word frail:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. frail: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. frail: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. frail, frail: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. frail: Collins English Dictionary
  5. frail: Vocabulary.com
  6. Frail, frail: Wordnik
  7. frail: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. frail: Wiktionary
  9. frail: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. frail: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. frail: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Frail, frail: Dictionary.com
  13. frail: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. frail: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Frail (Crystal Castles song), Frail (Jars of Clay album), Frail (Jars of Clay song), Frail (disambiguation), Frail: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Frail: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. frail: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. frail: Rhymezone
  19. frail: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. frail: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Frail: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  22. frail: Free Dictionary
  23. frail: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. frail: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. frail: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. frail: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. frail: Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. frail, frail, frail: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. frail: Urban Dictionary
  3. Frail: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

(Note: See frailing as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Easily broken physically; not firm or durable; liable to fail and perish.
adjective:  Weak; infirm.
adjective:  (medicine) In an infirm state leading one to be easily subject to disease or other health problems, especially regarding the elderly.
adjective:  Mentally fragile.
adjective:  Liable to fall from virtue or be led into sin; not strong against temptation; weak in resolution; unchaste.
noun:  (dated, slang) A girl.
verb:  To play a stringed instrument, usually a banjo, by picking with the back of a fingernail.
noun:  A basket made of rushes, used chiefly to hold figs and raisins.
noun:  The quantity of fruit or other items contained in a frail.
noun:  A rush for weaving baskets.
noun:  Synonym of farasola (“old unit of weight”)
noun:  (England, dialectal, obsolete) Synonym of flail.

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