| 单词 | fragility |
| 释义 | fragility (once / 9866 pages) n Fragility is a state of being delicate or breakable. The fragility of your grandmother's juice glasses might make you nervous about taking even one sip. An object's fragility makes it likely to get broken or damaged, and a person's fragility means that he's not physically strong. New parents are often worried about the fragility of their newborn baby, and being sick can emphasize a person's fragility. Another way to use the word is to mean "vulnerable" or "sensitive." When something's delicate or frail, you can call it fragile, and both words stem from the Latin root fragilis, "brittle or easily broken." WORD FAMILYfragility: fragilities+/fragile: fragilely, fragiler, fragilest, fragility USAGE EXAMPLESThey are 9-year-olds who connect through their knowledge of life’s fragility. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) Mills’s wife, Miranda July, a writer and filmmaker with the steely fragility of a Buster Keaton, once anatomized guys like Mills in a short story. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) That fragility persists in her but it is fighting a losing battle today with her perky playfulness. The Guardian(Dec 29, 2016) 1n quality of being easily damaged or destroyed Syn|Hyper breakability, frangibility, frangibleness vulnerability susceptibility to injury or attack 2n lack of physical strength Syn|Hyper delicacy weakness the property of lacking physical or mental strength; liability to failure under pressure or stress or strain |
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