frailadjective
uk/freɪl/us/freɪl/C2 weak or unhealthy, or easily damaged, broken, or harmed:
a frail old lady
I last saw him just last week and thought how old and frail he looked.
the country's frail economy
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Weakness and vulnerability
- Achilles heel
- at a low ebb idiom
- be (only) flesh and blood idiom
- be sb's poodle idiom
- chink in sb's armour idiom
- ebb
- faint
- indefensible
- lax
- limp
- malleable
- man of straw
- susceptible
- toothless
- totter
- underbelly
- unprotected
- unsteady
- vulnerable
- wraith
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