Adjective: fragile
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
| Comparative | fragiler |
| Superlative | fragilest |
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more fragile |
| Superlative | most fragile |
Sample Sentences
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She caught the fragile vase before it could shatter on the floor.
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The chemist synthesizes a fragile molecule.
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The UN tries to maintain the fragile peace process in the region.
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He is a very fragile person and gets easily depressed.
Adjectives inflected like fragile
serene,
severe,
secure,
sedate,
wheelie,
simple,
complete,
fulsome,
sprightlie,
discrete,
plosive,
bizarre,
brusque,
brittle,
wholesome,
sincere,
shystie,
loveable,
prophane,
terrible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French fragile, from Latin fragilis, formed on frag-, the root of frangere (“to break”). Cognate with fraction, fracture and doublet of frail. See: Latin Adjectives '
fragilis'.