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frail 音标拼音: [fr'el]
a. 脆弱的,虚弱的,意志薄弱的
n. 灯心草篓 脆弱的,虚弱的,意志薄弱的灯心草篓 frail adj 1: physically weak; " an invalid' s frail body" [ ant: { robust}] 2: 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" [ synonym: { fallible}, { frail}, { imperfect}, { weak}] 3: easily broken or damaged or destroyed; " a kite too delicate to fly safely"; " fragile porcelain plates"; " fragile old bones"; " a frail craft" [ synonym: { delicate}, { fragile}, { frail}] n 1: the weight of a frail ( basket) full of raisins or figs; between 50 and 75 pounds 2: a basket for holding dried fruit ( especially raisins or figs) frail \ frail\, a. [ Compar. { frailer} ( fr[= a] l"[~ e] r); superl. { frailest}.] [ OE. frele, freile, OF. fraile, frele, F. fr[^ e] le, fr. L. fragilis. See { Fragile}.] 1. Easily broken; fragile; not firm or durable; liable to fail and perish; easily destroyed; not tenacious of life; weak; infirm. [ 1913 Webster] That I may know how frail I am. -- Ps. xxxix. 4. [ 1913 Webster] An old bent man, worn and frail. -- Lowell. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Tender. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] Deep indignation and compassion frail. -- Spenser. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Liable to fall from virtue or be led into sin; not strong against temptation; weak in resolution; also, unchaste; -- often applied to fallen women. [ 1913 Webster] Man is frail, and prone to evil. -- Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster]
frail \ frail\ ( fr[= a] l), n. [ OE. fraiel, fraile, OF. fraiel, freel, frael, fr. LL. fraellum.] A basket made of rushes, used chiefly for containing figs and raisins. [ 1913 Webster] 2. The quantity of raisins -- about thirty- two, fifty- six, or seventy- five pounds, -- contained in a frail. [ 1913 Webster] 3. A rush for weaving baskets. -- Johnson. [ 1913 Webster] 218 Moby Thesaurus words for " frail": Adamic, Adamite, Adamitic, abulic, afraid, ailing, airy, anthropocentric, anthropological, attenuate, attenuated, backsliding, boyish, breakable, brittle, brittle as glass, cachectic, capricious, carnal, changeable, cheap- jack, cobwebby, consumptive, corruptible, cowardly, crackable, crippled, crisp, crispy, crumbly, crushable, dainty, debilitated, deciduous, decrepit, delicate, delicately weak, diaphanous, diluted, drained, dying, earthy, effeminate, enervated, ephemeral, erring, ethereal, evanescent, exhausted, fading, failing, faint, fainthearted, fallen, feeble, feebleminded, fickle, fine, fine- drawn, finespun, finite, fissile, fleeting, fleshly, flimsy, flitting, fly- by- night, flying, foible, fracturable, fragile, frailty, frangible, friable, fugacious, fugitive, gauzy, gimcrack, gimcracky, girlish, gossamer, gossamery, gracile, healthless, hominal, homocentric, human, humanistic, ill, impermanent, impetuous, impulsive, impure, in poor health, inconstant, infirm, insubstantial, invalid, invertebrate, jerry, jerry- built, lacerable, lacy, languishing, lapsed, light, lightweight, man- centered, misty, momentary, moribund, mortal, mutable, namby- pamby, nondurable, nonpermanent, of easy virtue, only human, pale, papery, passing, pasteboardy, peaked, peaky, peccable, perishable, petty, phthisic, pliable, poorly, postlapsarian, prodigal, puny, rare, rarefied, recidivist, recidivistic, reduced, reduced in health, run- down, scissile, scrawny, shatterable, shattery, shivery, short- lived, sick, sickly, sissified, skinny, sleazy, slender, slenderish, slight, slight- made, slim, slimmish, slinky, small, spineless, splintery, subtle, svelte, sylphlike, tacky, tellurian, temporal, temporary, tenuous, thin, thin- bodied, thin- set, thin- spun, thinnish, threadlike, transient, transitive, transitory, unangelic, unchaste, unclean, undurable, unenduring, ungodly, ungood, unhealthy, unrighteous, unsaintly, unsound, unstable, unsubstantial, unvirtuous, unwell, vague, valetudinarian, valetudinary, vice, virtueless, volatile, vulnerable, wanton, wasp- waisted, wasting away, watered, watered- down, watery, wayward, weak, weak- kneed, weak- minded, weak- willed, weakened, weakly, willowy, wiredrawn, wispy, with low resistance, womanish
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