Synonyms for frail
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1. frail

   Synonyms:
   delicate, diseased, emaciated, exhausted, failing, fainting, fragile, ill, sick, unhealthy, unsound, wasted, weak, worn, worn down, worn out

   Antonyms:
   hale, healthful, healthy, hearty, hygienic, salubrious, salutary, sanitary, sound, strong, vigorous, well, wholesome

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1. frail

   Synonyms:
   irresolute, erring, mutable

   Antonyms:
   resolute, virtuous, lasting

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1. frailnoun

   the weight of a frail (basket) full of raisins or figs; between 50 and 75 pounds

   Antonyms:
   broad-shouldered, unbreakable, cast-iron, strapping, burly, sturdy, big-boned, hardy, heavy-armed, vigorous, buirdly, stout, nonhuman, half-hardy, chesty, big-shouldered, robust, beefy, big-chested, husky, square-shouldered, stalwart, iron, square-built

2. frailadjective

   a basket for holding dried fruit (especially raisins or figs)

   Antonyms:
   buirdly, big-chested, broad-shouldered, square-built, big-shouldered, beefy, big-boned, hardy, husky, sturdy, heavy-armed, robust, stout, stalwart, iron, vigorous, square-shouldered, burly, strapping, unbreakable, cast-iron, chesty, nonhuman, half-hardy

3. frailadjective

   physically weak

   "an invalid's frail body"

   Synonyms:
   fallible, fragile, imperfect, weak, delicate

   Antonyms:
   broad-shouldered, husky, heavy-armed, chesty, buirdly, stalwart, burly, square-built, vigorous, big-chested, cast-iron, stout, iron, robust, nonhuman, unbreakable, sturdy, hardy, beefy, big-boned, big-shouldered, square-shouldered, half-hardy, strapping

4. fallible, frail, imperfect, weakadjective

   wanting in moral strength, courage, or will; having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings

   "I'm only a fallible human"; "frail humanity"

   Synonyms:
   weak, watery, infirm, unaccented, weakly, imperfect, rickety, debile, delicate, sapless, washy, faint, decrepit, light, fallible, feeble, fragile

   Antonyms:
   buirdly, nonhuman, half-hardy, big-shouldered, vigorous, burly, broad-shouldered, robust, chesty, stalwart, stout, husky, hardy, square-shouldered, big-chested, cast-iron, square-built, sturdy, iron, unbreakable, big-boned, beefy, strapping, heavy-armed

5. delicate, fragile, frailadjective

   easily broken or damaged or destroyed

   "a kite too delicate to fly safely"; "fragile porcelain plates"; "fragile old bones"; "a frail craft"

   Synonyms:
   delicate, slight, fallible, imperfect, tenuous, ticklish, soft, fragile, touchy, thin, flimsy, weak, finespun

   Antonyms:
   hardy, iron, husky, chesty, burly, big-boned, square-shouldered, strapping, stalwart, broad-shouldered, vigorous, heavy-armed, cast-iron, big-shouldered, stout, nonhuman, unbreakable, half-hardy, square-built, buirdly, sturdy, robust, big-chested, beefy

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1. frailadjective

   Synonyms:
   fragile, frangible, BRITTLE, easily broken (across)

2. frailadjective

   Synonyms:
   weak, feeble, fragile, INFIRM

3. frailadjective

   Synonyms:
   liable to err, easily led astray, of infirm virtue

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1. frailadjective

   Synonyms:
   fragile, brittle, frangible, feeble, weak, infirm

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1. List of paraphrases for "frail":

   fragile, weak, humble, brittle

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How to use frail in a sentence?

1. Frances Rodman:

   Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

2. John Still:

   The memories of men are too frail a thread to hang history from.

3. Greg Poland:

   If any good could come out of this, it’s a warning to all that booster doses have their place, particularly in the more elderly, or frail or people with underlying medical conditions, as soon as they can get their booster, they should.

4. Max Lerner:

   The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.

5. Roxanne Davis:

   The gap in the boards appears to be maybe eight inches, and Mary was certainly very frail, but it's hard for me to believe that a person could step on a board, and their entire body would go down a crack that is two inches wider than a dollar bill.