Frail

Quick meaning: Frail is an adjective meaning Easily broken physically; not firm or durable; liable to fail and perish.

Meaning

Easily broken physically; not firm or durable; liable to fail and perish.

More Meanings

1. Weak; infirm.
2. (medicine) In an infirm state leading one to be easily subject to disease or other health problems, especially regarding the elderly.
3. Mentally fragile.
4. Liable to fall from virtue or be led into sin; not strong against temptation; weak in resolution; unchaste.
5. To play a stringed instrument, usually a banjo, by picking with the back of a fingernail.
6. A basket made of rushes, used chiefly to hold figs and raisins.
7. (dated, slang) A girl.

Example Sentences

O as the soft and frail lights break upon your eyelids

She was the roughest, toughest frail, but Minnie had a heart as big as a whale.

Returne with ſpeed, time paſſeth ſwift away, Our life is fraile, and we may dye to day.

‘She's pickin' 'em tonight, right on the nose,’ he said. ‘That tall black-headed frail.’

Word Forms

• frailer
• frailest
• frails
• frailing
• frailed

Synonyms for frail

Depending on context, synonyms include farasola, flail, delicate, feeble, sapless, decrepit.

Antonyms for frail

Common opposites include robust.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include weakly, feeble, infirm, weak, decrepit, fragile.

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