7 letters · 11 points in Scrabble
adjective easily broken or damaged or destroyed
adjective vulnerably delicate
adjective lacking substance or significance; ; ; ; a fragile claim to fame"
originBorrowed from Middle French fragile, from Latin fragilis, formed on frag-, the root of frangere (“to break”). Cognate with fraction, fracture and doublet of frail.
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